Although I did not grow up with the internet culture of the 90s and the early 00s, I occasionally find myself longing for “the good old days” where the concerns about “Codes of Conduct”, “Privacy” and “Censorship” were not as prevalent as they are today. Those were simpler times for the internet. Less people. Less noise. Less clutter. Memes were neither weaponized nor forced. ‘Teh internetz’ was just another cool place to hang out and meet people rather than… everything

Granted, I am seeing this utopian vision of ‘Teh Internetz’ through the rose tinted glasses of cultural nostalgia. Things were probably not as fun and cozy as I “remember”. Sure, I haven’t forgotten some of the horrid things such as slow internet, JRE plug-in, flash advertisements and an almost dysfunctional video streaming.

However, if I were chosen the lord of the internet, I would do everything in my power and bring about this utopian, decentralized and post social media era I envision. Here, everyone with an online presence gets their own personal website… to do whatever with.

So, everything aside, I want to explain in this post, what this project ( personal website ) of mine aims to achieve, and why. The concept of a “personal website” is alien to me, being from a generation that grew up with orkut and facebook.

1. A place to write, express and articulate my thought

A personal website serves as a platform for anything I want to express. I know, that there is social media for that sorta thing these days, however I see a certain value in long form posts beyond the 280 characters limit and the paradigm of “likes” and “shares”. A blog post is just a piece of writing with an independent existence. This makes blogs easier to parse as a reader.

Also, I’ve been wanting to get into the habit of writing regularly. Jordan Peterson ji tells me that learning to articulate and verbalize my thoughts through writing is a very useful skill to possess and sharpen.

2. Online presence

This is a website where anyone can reach out and connect to me at any point of time.

“I can be useful to maintain an online presence”, I have heard… So yah. This site is my online presence. I expect that this site improves my visibility. I don’t do social media anyway. So it all works out.

While I do not agree with him on everything, this boomer gets it!

3. This. Is. So. Cool.

THIS.👏 IS.👏 SO.👏 COOL.👏

I get a plot of land in the internet where I get to do anything I want. It’s MINE!

What I am trying to say is…

THIS.👏 IS.👏 SO.👏 COOL.👏

Put another way, everyone should consider getting one of these.

The future

I will write my opinion on everything from technology to politics here in the blog. I do not see much else I can do here and am open to suggestions. My next post will be me shouting at you to start using RSS feeds.

Thanks for the read!