# on the Internet we miss that never existed https://hetconned.substack.com/p/the-internet-you-miss-never-existed this is brilliant and just what i needed to read. when someone alludes to, or evokes teh holy aura of digital nostalgia and warm fuzzy electronic yesteryears one should indeed pause to ask "whose past exactly?" as leena correctly identifies there's a sly ideological gaslighting that occurs when some (ie. cishet people of whiteness) casually spit that loose techbro jive about them good ol' internet daze; 'it' directly reflects their own inherently elevated position within / as the net - a system of digital colonialism. as they say "the internet is made of people (of power)" an intellectual history of digital colonialism by toussaint nothias: https://academic.oup.com/joc/article/75/5/385/8078024?login=false as an amateur net philosopher currently pretending to develop an alternative imaginary internet it's given me a lot to ponder for my own research: [[retrofeel - stories from the uk amiga demoscene underground]] // republic of bob