me, 97:
“There used to be this thing they called ‘surfing the web’. Anyone could make a website, and show up in search results. There was this one I liked called, ‘You’re The Man Now, Dog’ and there was this cat, on a keyboard …”
them:
“Okay, grandma. Let’s get you to bed.”
Sometimes
I wish to travel back to the past,
but then I remember how boomers would act like I was the most ridiculous entitled little snot for asking, “Why can’t I just do this all online?” to every single kind of thing that is super normal to do online now.
And how the little baby T‑shirts went up into my armpits,
all the visors were upside-down,
and the albums were downloaded one track at a time,
to the full-sized desktop someone dragged to the party to play music off of.
It was a dark era.
Watching
old cigarette commercials from my parents’ time is wild.
I hope one day future generations will get to feel this way about ads for prescription drugs and ones targeted directly at children.
—bwargh von modnar
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