Writing and the Value of Human Created Content on the Internet

I keep coming back to the desire of contributing more human-esque content to the internet. I was born too close to the year 2000 to remember the days of ARPANET and personal home pages, though I did spend time on digg.com growing up.

Probably around 2006, my uncle who was probably about 15 had been riding around our small town to find someone with unprotected wifi so he could use their internet. Apparently he found one so he put me on his longboard one night and we sat across the street from that house and watched newgrounds videos on his PSP.

That was after the 90s, the time when there was no google and there was no real way to find a website unless someone told you about it or you found a way to manually link your site to someone else's. Back in the time where the internet was used either by the military, education, or because real humans wanted to use technology in a cool way. It required you to have enough technical knowledge in order to interact with the internet, so there was a fairly significant barrier of entry.

I wish that I had been there for that time. I want to be a part of these cool niche groups where there are no financial incentives. Where I wouldn't have asked if something was AI. Where there was no modern social media, no AI posting AI generated posts with AI comments, no massive commercialization and data harvest and psychological manipulation to maximize addiction and thus ad revenue.

Anyway, I'm not much of a writer but in an internet full of AI generated content, maybe it's refreshing to read something obviously written by a human. This blog and website are my contribution to the internet and a callback to times past when things were simpler and not so saturated with commercialism and hate.

Thanks for reading

- Nathaniel