The year we wanted the internet to be smaller - The Verge
'All we ever did was share photos we’d seen before and thank each other for existing, but I suspected we were responsible for each other in some slim, uncategorizable way.we are responsible for each other in some slim, uncategorizable wayAt The Verge, we used to argue amongst ourselves about whether internet culture was “internet culture” or just “culture.” It now seems useful to debate whether the internet itself is “the internet” or simply the world. '
'Advocates of a weird, niche internet took other hits in 2017, the first full year without Vine and a crisis period for SoundCloud. '
'Patreon provides a crucial place where the people who are making internet culture can to get paid for it and build small communities around their work. '
'We can see this longing for community — and specifically, the sort of small, weird communities that populated and defined the early internet — everywhere. '
'The old promise of the internet — niche communities, human connection, people exchanging ideas, maybe even paying each other for the work they’d made — never really lost its appeal, but this year it came back with a miniature vengeance. '
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'All we ever did was share photos we’d seen before and thank each other for existing, but I suspected we were responsible for each other in some slim, uncategorizable way.we are responsible for each other in some slim, uncategorizable wayAt The Verge, we used to argue amongst ourselves about whether internet culture was “internet culture” or just “culture.” It now seems useful to debate whether the internet itself is “the internet” or simply the world. '
'Advocates of a weird, niche internet took other hits in 2017, the first full year without Vine and a crisis period for SoundCloud. '
'Patreon provides a crucial place where the people who are making internet culture can to get paid for it and build small communities around their work. '
'We can see this longing for community — and specifically, the sort of small, weird communities that populated and defined the early internet — everywhere. '
'The old promise of the internet — niche communities, human connection, people exchanging ideas, maybe even paying each other for the work they’d made — never really lost its appeal, but this year it came back with a miniature vengeance. '
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