The End of an Internet Era
Life online is losing chaos, unpredictability, and delight—all of the things that made it fun.
by Isabel Fattal
Apr 21, 2023
5 minutes
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The internet of the 2010s was chaotic, delightful, and, most of all, human. What happens to life online as that humanity fades away?
First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic:
- Silicon Valley’s favorite slogan has lost all meaning.
- Too many Americans are missing out on the best kitchen gadget.
- Elon Musk revealed what Twitter always was.
Chaotically Human
My colleague Charlie Warzel worked at BuzzFeed News in the 2010s. He identifies those years as a specific era of the internet—one that symbolically died yesterday withthe news of the website . Yesterday, Charlie a glimpse of what those years felt like for people working in digital media:
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