@TomFulp @Lepy My dad is a Ham radio guy, has been since he was a kid. He still works the radio every daily, is part of a local radio club, has a whole social scene around it. To most people though, it's a dying art - something that was a cool hobby BEFORE the Internet came around.
I used to think my life on the web was a lot like my dad's life on Ham radio, only the web would always be in style. Now I'm not as confident, since a lot of people don't really "browse the web" like they used to.
Like Ham radio, that doesn't mean it ever goes away and the web community is way bigger than the radio community ever was. This web life might never be mainstream but it will always persist and there will always be a community for it.
People just need to decide if their community needs to be the epicenter of global attention, or whatever it is people are hoping to find when they put themselves on-line. What is the goal? If you can have a cool bunch of friends and collaborators on a website, is that enough? Even if you won't get 100k likes? People will have to decide.
TomFulp
I heard a radio ad this morning about training to fix jets and I wondered what life would be like if I just worked on jets every day. I'd be super nervous whenever one takes off, though, wondering if I fucked something up.
When the internet came along it all felt like limitless potential but now it's harder to have a clear vision for what the endgame is.
Lepy
I think you'd get used to it after some time. I imagine pretty much everyone who works in explosives got nervous when they started and a lot of them don't sweat it the more they know what they're doing.
People have to get tired of the internet so it can re-surge eventually, r-right??