2021-08-02 - Connected 
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I just noticed i've been phlogging on the gopherspace (with varying 
intervals) for nearly two years now. That's kinda nice! I feel 
finding gopher has made a really positive change for me and to the 
way i approach computers.

In the past two years, i've turned more and more into a 'mouse 
living in the foundations of the internet' as ~Spring describes so 
nicely on his circumlunar republic phlog [1]

And i feel quite alright here amidst these other mice. Everything 
is small and humble, everything is nice and quiet and everything 
happening at a much more pleasant pace.

While internet is definitely great, an overload of connectivity 
feels harmful to myself. So i'm trying to limit my exposure to it. 
I really like ~Visiblink's ideas on his 1979 experiment [2] That's 
definitely something i want to try out in some way too. 

One thing i would like to try out for a while, is to connect to the 
internet only once a week; for example on saturdays, and only in a 
specific location; the library.

This way, connecting becomes a consious decision and becomes 
something that is again bound to specific limits; the same way it 
used to be when i was young; Internet happened at the library... 
for 50 cents per 15 minutes...

For today i will disconnect, i will listen to some music and will 
ponder about the magical times before everything and everybody was 
permanently connected.

[1] gopher://republic.circumlunar.space/1/~spring/phlog/
[2] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/~visiblink/phlog/20200822