This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of events in recent history. Let me back up a bit.
I hate to be a language prescriptivist, and I fully recognise that times change, language evolves. But I can’t help but feel frustrated and disappointed that this term become the norm. Everyone has latched on to it, unaware of the connotation, I think. And now it’s here, it feels like it’ll never go away.
I hate to be a language prescriptivist, and I fully recognise that times change, language evolves. But I can’t help but feel frustrated and disappointed that this term become the norm. Everyone has latched on to it, unaware of the connotation, I think. And now it’s here, it feels like it’ll never go away.
Geordi, disgusted: being a _con_tent creator
Geordi, interested: being a con_tent_ creator
discontent creator