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diff --git a/about/whereami.html b/about/whereami.html index 1cbec0b..c34c973 100644 --- a/about/whereami.html +++ b/about/whereami.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ The way you get here is through a device you have at home called a router, which <p>I'm getting lost on your question though, so where are we exactly?</p> <p>Precisely speaking, you are in a chrooted web server running on rented virtual machine in a server farm located roughly in New Jersey browsing the "about" directory on the "whereami.html" page.</p> <p>Less precisely, all that means is you're looking at some files I left in a directory at this address, and paid some people to host for me since local ISPs tend to be ridiculously expensive if you want to do anything besides host some private servers for you and your friends and family.</p> -<p>But maybe most importantly, you've reached a webpage owned by another human being, not a corporation, or a bot, or a government, or work, or a <em>network</em>. All these files were loving crafted by yours truly in vim, in markdown and converted with pandoc to HTML because of laziness. The Internet I grew up with, though I didn't really appreciate because I was too young at the time, used to be filled with places like this. "Homepages" were a <em>thing</em>, or were just starting to be at least. And people made <a href="http://textfiles.com/">all</a> <a href="http://toastytech.com/">sorts</a> <a href="http://sam.zoy.org/">of</a> <a href="https://newgrounds.com">weird</a> <a href="https://something.com/">pages</a> to get lost for a while.</p> +<p>But maybe most importantly, you've reached a webpage owned by another human being, not a corporation, or a bot, or a government, or work, or a <em>network</em>. All these files were loving crafted by yours truly in vim, in markdown and converted with pandoc to HTML because of laziness. The Internet I grew up with, though I didn't really appreciate because I was too young at the time, used to be filled with places like this. "Homepages" were a thing, or were just starting to be at least.</p> <p>But as soon as it started it all got sucked up social media, everyone got coerced into profiles, templates, and standards to make us easier for ad companies to study. It's not even unreasonable to believe you're not even talking to real people on there, because there's a good chance of it now. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing">Astroturfing</a> is not a secret government conspiracy, it's just business as usual at this point. You used to be able to tell a human from a chatbot from the way they write. I don't know if the bots at this point are smarter, or if we've just been made so cynical and dumb by business as usual that we've given up.</p> <p>Who would really write all that garbage on Facebook anyway?</p> <p>Don't mistake this for some pity nostalgia piece though. If you look hard enough--I promise you--that <em>Internet</em> of humans is still there.</p> |