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a love letter to the old internet, and a break up text to the new one | mathu's thoughts

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Growing up, I saw it all. Wide-eyed early 2000’s child experiencing the transition from CDs to MP3 players, to iPods, to Spotify in less than a few years. Every weekend I looked forward to the small window of computer time each Sunday, where I transported myself to different worlds - everythinggirl.com, tamatown, unlocking every island on poptropica and building my dream igloo on club penguin. Instagram was the creative outlet to share fun photos with my friends. The new ipods and ipads were the coolest things I've ever seen. I kind of knew, growing up that I wanted to be in the technology space in some shape or form. I wanted to build robots, make apps, and do things that made the world feel magical. But the last 5 or so years have felt stagnant. This decline was also around the time I started University, just at the inception of my career in tech. The apps I spent the most time on and the companies everyone wanted to work for were Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, and Tiktok. I fell in

Nov 21, 2022 by mathurah a love letter to the old internet, and a break up text to the new one Growing up, I saw it all. Wide-eyed early 2000’s child experiencing the transition from CDs to MP3 players, to iPods, to Spotify in less than a few years. Every weekend I looked forward to the small window of computer time each Sunday, where I transported myself to different worlds - everythinggirl.com , tamatown , unlocking every island on poptropica and building my dream igloo on club penguin. Instagram was the creative outlet to share fun photos with my friends. The new ipods and ipads were the co

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