I’m not clear on what you mean by “a life wasted” — can you elaborate? I’m getting the sense that you’re quite jaded from the early internet dying, but I don’t understand why you consider this to be a waste (or what you mean by being a cautionary tale).
Part of my curiosity comes from the fact that I am probably similar levels of nerdy as you, but I am somewhat younger than you . This means my early experience of the internet is quite different, and I am endlessly fascinated by what came before — in an odd way, it feels like learning about my own “cultural heritage”, so to speak.
My career has been in building infrastructure for internet services. I got into this line of work because I felt like it was democratizing knowledge and bringing people together. The way it’s instead gone, I regret being part of it, and I wish I would have gone into another line of work.
I’m not clear on what you mean by “a life wasted” — can you elaborate? I’m getting the sense that you’re quite jaded from the early internet dying, but I don’t understand why you consider this to be a waste (or what you mean by being a cautionary tale).
Part of my curiosity comes from the fact that I am probably similar levels of nerdy as you, but I am somewhat younger than you . This means my early experience of the internet is quite different, and I am endlessly fascinated by what came before — in an odd way, it feels like learning about my own “cultural heritage”, so to speak.
My career has been in building infrastructure for internet services. I got into this line of work because I felt like it was democratizing knowledge and bringing people together. The way it’s instead gone, I regret being part of it, and I wish I would have gone into another line of work.