
Picture Me Coding
Picture Me Coding is a music podcast about software. Each week your hosts Erik Aker and Mike Mull take on topics in the software world and they are sometimes joined by guests from other fields who arrive with their own burning questions about technology.
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Picture Me Coding
Nostalgia for the 90s Internet
This week Mike and Erik wax nostalgic about the early days of the internet and then they wonder if all this trite nostalogizing (is that a word?) isn't really a dangerous or simply not-useful self-deception. Was stuff really better in the early days of the internet? What do you think?
Check out some links:
- https://web.archive.org/
- profile of Jake Nickell from 2011 in the Chicago Reader
- Cory Doctorow's now-famous blogpost in Wired on "enshitiffication"