That Time The Internet Wasn’t A Hellscape

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4.7 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to pay tribute to this thing called Beyoncé’s internet. No, not today’s digital hellscape, but the one we first fell in love with way back in ye olde days of AOL, Napster, and LiveJournal. *dial up bings and gurgles* This week, Josh and Tracy reminisce on how being online once had the potential to affirm us. How did we go from that to *gestures at the entire World Wide Web* whatever mess this is? And how can we imagine and create a better cyber world for us, by us? To help answer these questions, we’ll be joined by two people we would definitely rank in our Myspace Top 8, Bridget Todd (digital activist and host of “There Are No Girls On The Internet”) and Naj Austin (founder of Ethel’s Club and Somewhere Good). To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Jill Schlesinger, CBS News, business analyst, certified financial planner, and the host of the Jill on Money podcast.
0:07.8	With the new year upon us, there's no better time to take control of your financial life.
0:13.6	And the Jill on Money podcast is here to help.
0:16.6	It's your questions that make it possible for me to provide unconventional and I hope entertaining insights on your money, more importantly, on your life. Follow and listen to pay tribute to this thing called the Internet.
0:49.3	Now, they would have you believe that Al Gore invented the Internet.
0:56.0	But we know better.
0:58.0	I said, did you hear me?
1:01.0	What you said?
1:02.0	We know better.
1:04.0	Mm-hmm, we shall do.
1:06.0	We are here to remember the real Internet.
1:09.0	Beyonce's internet.
1:12.5	The internet we all knew and loved and now mostly hate.
1:18.3	Before the snapgrams and insta chats, we had Yahoo chat rooms and instant messengers.
1:26.2	Yes, we did.
1:26.8	Before we could put all of our feelings in the Twitter thread, we had to put them in sad blogs like
1:32.3	Zanga and LiveJermal.
1:34.3	Y'all don't know nothing about it.
1:35.3	And before streaming, we had to download our music on peer-to-peer networks like Napster.
1:42.3	Tell them about the networks.
1:43.3	They don't know nothing about the networks.
1:45.0	Not a thing.
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