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🗓️ 9 February 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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0:00.0 | This episode contains descriptions of graphic content. |
0:04.7 | Listener discretion is advised. |
0:16.3 | It's weird to think about a time before the internet. |
0:19.3 | I, like probably many of you, have become so used to having the internet in my life that |
0:25.4 | the world before it almost seems like a weird dream that I once woke up from and never |
0:31.4 | again returned to. |
0:33.6 | The internet plays such a large part in most of our lives that it is pretty much impossible |
0:38.4 | to think about a modern world without it. |
0:40.7 | I mean, the internet plays a vital role in many of our professions, our healthcare and |
0:45.6 | political systems, our social interactions and means of communication, our dating rituals, |
0:52.4 | and even our entertainment, everything from the TV or web shows that we stream, the |
0:57.6 | books that we read, the podcast we listen to, the video games we download, the movies we |
1:03.4 | watch, basically everything we have or do is connected in some way to the wider world |
1:08.6 | around us. |
1:09.6 | Hell, you're listening to me in a media format that wasn't even a thing 20 years |
1:14.1 | ago, and for me, it's hard to think back to that time in which we did not have almost |
1:19.9 | everything in the world at our fingertips, but there was a world before the internet, |
1:25.2 | and surprisingly, it wasn't that long ago, at least not really. |
1:30.2 | I remember as a teenager in the mid 2000s, before social media became what it is today, |
1:36.2 | and the world that large was connected at the hip of the world wide web, collecting physical |
1:40.6 | items for my media consumption, not only books, but DVDs and CDs. |
1:47.0 | Before then, my family and I had a large collection of VHS tapes and cassettes, which we |
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