2022-09-17

I'm challenging myself to phlog at least once a day for the next week. 
Like most millenials in the early 2000s, I had a livejournal that I
updated quite often when I was in college. It seems like I never 
really had trouble jotting down my thoughts for the day. But as
I've grown older, making blog updates just seems to be harder and 
harder to do.

I've long since migrated to a wordpress blog which I update maybe once
a month to keep long time friends up to date with what's going on in
my life but I'd like to get back to just throwing up my thoughts in
this gopher early 2000s style.

When reviewing my early blog posts, what stands out to me is all of
the online quizzes. Remember those? It seems like we were all doing
these silly online quizzes to see what Hogwarts house we belong to
or what type of drink or food you are. 

I'm not sure why we stopped doing online quizzes but it probably
had something to do with "internet investors" trying to monetize
those quiz websites and making the web quizzes unbearable with
ads and other corporate web bullshit. 

I hate sounding like a broken record but I just can't reiterate 
enough that a lot of the charm of the internet has really fallen
by the wayside once the web went super corporate. To be sure, the
current web is WAY more functional than the early web. We have tons
of useful apps that allow us to shop, book cars, book planes, watch
videos, and all sorts of things we only ever saw the barest hints
of in the late 90s/early 2000s.

but we also have tons of ads and trackers and all sorts of crap like
that. The indie charm of the early web is definitely missing.