As the internet evolves so should the attitude of how to engage in it. Very early on when there were only Html pages, to get online or to have a presence online was only via a website. It became easy when content management systems became accessible. Html then is almost as complex as trying to understand nfts but then resources available were sparse. Fully understand nft with custom smart contracts on ethereum. Then came social media, incrementally that is. There were fewer brands too then. The height of toxicity that social media reached, at least what I am aware of was during the Trump years. 2016-'20. The Html page had long transitioned into a post that has so many possibilities but within the walled garden imposed by where the post was accessed in. Note-taking apps hit the scene with roam in 2019. It introduced notes. They were set in blocks. Pages 1993-’99, posts 2004-'08, blocks 2016-'19, and now nfts 2017-’21. Time in 2016 vs in 2019 vs in 2021 are all different. Facebook groups, slack channels, and shared graphs create different forms of communication communities. It is easy to confuse all of this especially when there are new terms that are added almost every day to the discourse on internet knowledge work. Previously internet was a place. Today we have sites that are placed on the internet that charge money to access them. Our expectations too of the material we access have changed. Spending time in roam and the #roamcult for now almost nine months has been pivotal in understanding how the internet and therefore imagination of material published has changed in time especially in relation to architecture and spatial practices. To complete a kindle publication, assemble notes of a year into a paper, and think out the future of the roam manor into a marketplace of ideas is what I would like to have completed before Feb of '22. The project is almost taking form but not there yet.
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