I need to resist nostalgia for the early 2000s, because I know intellectually that I was pretty much just miserable all the time then and that homophobia was both socially acceptable and socially expected, and also that it was the War on Terror and so many of the links in the chain currently being used to throttle us were being forged back in those days, but like…
I miss the good Internet. I miss the way it was before it went all corporate. I miss when it was all anarchic and gave us stuff like “Trogdor the Burninator” and “The Adventures of Dr. McNinja” and not crypto-scams and fascist memes and ai-generated shrimp jesus slop.