The Barrow

Over the past few days I have been exploring the internet in general but also Geminispace in particular quite heavily in a revival of my love of internet exploration. This has been quite nice and has helped reconnect me to my younger self quite a lot.

I first became a heavy internet user in 2004. Obviously the internet was very different then. I always felt that perhaps the coolest, most interesting thing I had ever seen would just be one or two links away. I did find a lot of cool things, some of which remain relevant but most of which do not. For example, Elfwood is gone, while DeviantArt remains a large art community (though it too is quite different from how it was in 2004...) Most of the gaming and anime fansites I used to frequent in the 2000s are gone, yet Reddit remains (though it is a ridiculous caricature of its former self).

There's still a lot out there. Not everything is on five or six sites.

Here's a good jumping-off point...