The Internet is a wonderful and terrible thing. It opens doors and slams them shut. It builds up and destroys. It educates and dumbs down. It lies and tells the truth. It’s a balance of dark and light, good and evil, alpha and omega. Cyberspace is a parallel universe that opens up when you touch your keyboard.
The Internet is a free-for-all. Anything can happen. It’s always evolving, always changing…for better or worse, you never know. And it’s still mostly free.
Oh, and there’s plenty of cats too.
I always thought of the Internet as comparable to being set loose in New York City during its most dangerous and exciting years–the 1970s and 1980s. You never knew what you would see, what sort of wonderful or terrible things could happen. It was a glorious chaos during that time. I know, I lived there then.
I hope the Internet is never “cleaned up” the way New York City was during the 1990s. I don’t want a Disneyland Internet.
Lucky Otters Haven 
How was New York City cleaned up? What did they do?
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Mayor Giuliani mainly. Times Square used to be a crime filled snake pit, now it’s family friendly. I think what he did was good, but I think NY lost some of its specialness too.
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Looking at the picture of the cyberspace universe….I wonder if that orange blob in the center is Facebook, I bet it is. The vastness of the web is really incredible. It really is like a whole nother universe. It’s hard to wrap my brain around it being less than 20 years old (the public Internet anyway).
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Do you remember this commercial?
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Look how primitive the Internet looks in 2002!
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Lol I know…the computer itself too.
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I’ve heard so many people say that, and read so many people write that, about NYC before Giuliani, it surely must be true! I’ve only been there briefly, that was in the late 80’s, so I have no basis, but it sure is said a lot!
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I remember going to New York when I was a kid, mid 90s and my mom was super nervous about it lol. But going back as an adult (2x) it’s one of my favourite cities in the U.S. So I think it’s still special ☺️
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I haven’t been back to New York since 1995. I miss it.
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