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Friday, 31 March 06 ::
this and that
do you know how many brilliant blog posts i write... in my car? that never ever make it to this space? a lot. i mean, a lot a lot a lot. whenever i find myself driving across town or out to lost valley, or.. i write blog posts. sometimes they are rants, other times just very thoughtful posts about what is happening in my life. but, as you can tell, none of them make it here. i don't know why, but maybe one of these days i'll carry a little notebook and write down these thoughts i have in my car and then maybe actually record them here.
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one thought i'm having right now is that maybe i'm a semi-early adopter. i mean, i've been doing this blogging thing since election day of 2000. really. somewhere i can find my first post.. it was about the hopeful election of al gore, and mainly, the defeat of oregon's measure 9 in 2000. and my ipod is one without the click-wheel thingy. oh, yeah. and my first website was done in 1995. or 1996? early 1996 late 1995. somewhere i've got a print out of it. it was pretty bad.. but for back then it was actually pretty good.
what made me think about all this? reading this lecture at the open courseware project at utah state about social software. i've been around for a long time, i guess.. i remember when internet messaging came out.. in fact i remember spending time in 'talk' which was a part of a dummy terminal that we all used back then to do things like 'irc' and check our email with 'pine.' back then a dummy terminal was how we all accessed the wonderful world of the internet. muds were big, and as an elementary education major i tapped into text based eric databases and showed this strange thing called 'the internet' to my fellow elementary education student teachers.
12 years ago i never imagined that the internet would become what it has. i never would have imagined this thing becoming such a big part of all our lives. for me the attraction has been connecting with others.. a desperate need i've always had. i guess i'm not the only one. i guess i'm not the only one who's had the same need. billions upon billions of us reaching out through this medium..
*hmm* an interesting comment on how we humans really are. i mean, here in the states we're all so fucking independent, pretending we don't need each other.. i have a theory -- that i just pulled out of my rear-end -- that we are actually more dependent than we let on -- as evidenced by our attachment to this internet thing.
posted by brooke at March 31, 2006 06:09 PM
