The Internet’s Lonely Urban Design
<p>In the beginning, the internet resembled a quaint village where everybody knew your name. It was largely self-governing and self-policing, with its own norms and customs. Like many insular communities it struggled with, and feared, immigration. Every September a new crop of college freshmen would get their first computers and briefly overrun the village before eventually getting assimilated into its culture.</p>
<p>As computers became more prevalent, Septembers got longer. Finally, in 1993, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">September never ended</a>. People from all over the world were joining all the time, ceaselessly, bringing their own tastes and expectations to the nascent community. The internet became a diverse city. It developed a seedy underbelly, a hipster neighborhood, contentious politics, content moderators, culture wars.</p>
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