I could not agree more, but you put it up much more eloquent than I did.

I miss VCR rentals, my cassette player and the magic of my first XT computer with MFM disks. I miss the apple //c and hopping online just to check for some information. I miss the craftsmanship of all those self made websites where you kept a list of URL’s. I miss the points where people put stuff on the internet just to share and what they made and were proud of it. I miss the trips with friends to the arcade hall where we would take turns on operation wolf. E-Mailing the friend you made during the holidays and be able to send pictures was some kind of magic.

I truely hate what the internet has become. A centralized corporate greed machine that exploits people and squeezes them for maximum profits. People are more interested in likes and retweets than in genuine contact.

I am getting old… grumpy… bitter because the thing I loved was taken from me.

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