Why does the visceral experience of the internet feel so bad?

Today you wonder off like the safe pass of the internet and it's like a trap

You know you click on the wrong thing suddenly like 50 pop-ups come up something says

Hey, you've been infected with a virus click here to fix it

Which of course if you do click on it does infect you with a virus and you have to kind of turn constantly control yourself

You have to be on guard. It's a mixture of being in a bad neighborhood and a used car sales place and a casino

And a like infectious disease ward all combined into one and that is not relaxing

Welcome to why is this happening with me your host Chris A's

I was born 1979 and I think I got my first computer

I want to say when I was seven or eight, which was an MS doc computer that used to play loadrunner on which is an amazing game

The best part of loadrunner was that you could make your own loadrunner boards, but you can make loadrunner boards

That's oh man. I'm gonna get off this microphone and go upstairs and play loadrunner

So I had that computer and then and then I my first like real Windows computer

Which is a pen had a Pentium chip in it. I remember I spent like a year researching it to convince my parents to buy it and got this computer

I want to say when I was 12 or 13 so 1999 well 1992

And I did something then because I had become a real computer nerd that was bold which was that rather than use

AOL or Prodigy or any of the other online services that were available at the time

I convinced my parents to sign up for what I think of the times called netcom

Which was TCP IP protocol whereby you got like the actual raw internet

Meaning you could use use net which were message boards and you could use a browser

Which was mosaic to browse what was called the world wide web

Before mosaic there was that all text browser called links that I used to use and I can still see myself

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