I grew up on an algorithm-free internet & stories about a time when computers used punch cards instead of screens. Computers were so inconvenient to use that I was considered a nerd just for being able to type and both my primary and secondary schools hosted computer skills classes. Information online felt more like an encyclopedic archive than social media. Facebook was revolutionary. Being able to share your thoughts at the click of a button felt incredibly exposing, and it quickly got out of hand. Wikipedia inspired both confidence and suspicion. Memes set the tone for modern humor and 9gag became notorious. I'm not sure how to describe what came next other than hitting turbo on information availability and consumption. Trying to keep up with what was happening online felt like living through Zeno's Paradox. Every time you got close enough to touch the goal-post, it would move further away. As you sped up, so did the goal, until I started to feel completely unde...