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The Internet is Eating Us

I’ve wasted thousands of hours (tens of thousands maybe) trapped in an endless Shimmer blackhole of CandyCrush and baby goat memes - I'm collapsing the blackhole.

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Madeline
Aug 25, 2024
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We are the last generation to ever exist that remembers what it was like before the Shimmer, and I am ever so slightly straddling that line. It’s only in my very earliest memories that I remember my household without a computer at all, and in slightly later memories my father clipping a pager to his tool belt before work, and playing snake on his Nokia …

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