“Looking at the internet doesn’t lend itself easily to prose,” writes Maya Chung—yet any novelist of the 21st century must confront it. The web isn’t background noise; it’s the texture of modern life, and fiction is finally grappling with it. #Literature #Writing #InternetAge #Books #Culture

In the easily available access to all information that is the #InternetAge, #IgnoranceIsTheExcuseOfTheApathetic

#IMO, there has not been proper focus | education on #SocialInteraction for some time; in the #InternetAge | #TechBoomAge, with folks now growing up with devices in their hands, this has been drastically exacerbated. Unfortunately, I'm unsure of what the solutions can be.

#google #googlesearch #27thbirthday #27thanniversary #searchengine #web #theweb #www #worldwideweb #thenet #internet #theinternet #internetofthings #informationage #informationera #internetage #internetera

A photo of a commemorative plaque that reads: BEGINNING OF THE INTERNET AGE On August 27, 1976, scientists from SRI International celebrated the successful completion of tests by sending an electronic message from a computer set up at a picnic table behind the Alpine Inn. The message was sent via a radio network to SRI and on through a second network, the ARPANET, to Boston. This event marked the beginning of the Internet Age.

"The first two-network TCP/IP transmission was between the [Packet Radio Van] and ARPANET on August 27, 1976; the van was parked next to Rossotti's (since 1956, officially the "Alpine Inn"), a well-known Portola Valley, California biker bar, and wires […]

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how old are you in internet years without telling your age?

we used to print pictures of Snoopy using X's and O's on paper you could tear apart at perforated sections

#InternetAge

Excited to share our latest study (feat. @matti.vuorre.com) on Internet & global mental health. We find major shifts in tech and minor variations in well-being across two decades. We aim to describe these trends in the full paper:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #DigitalWellbeing #InternetAge

The reality of the #InternetAge is that people all over the over are realizing more and more that they are affecting and affected by people and the possibilities of people lurking creeping keeping an eye on them

That they may never meet have met and or will ever meet again.