MSN Messenger was an IM platform with more than 300 millions users at its high point. Many social innovations and phenomena can be linked to the program, however Pedro focuses here on one: intimacy.
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Pedro pauses his reports on pages of the good old Internet to share an intimate memory and the recurrence of what he felt back then during his investigations.
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Chat rooms were anonymity paradises. Not without dangers, but is our current day of authenticity safer or better? The comic essay on the old Internet by @triquidick continues!
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Fotolog was a very popular social media platform in Spain and Latin-America which disappeared from the Internet some years ago. Or did it somehow survive?
In this issue of “I run high on the New and I love the Old” we will meet librarian robots, mid-2000s emos and a business model that might have saved us from losing our self-determination.
"I run high on the New and I love the Old" is a monthly comic exploring the Internet in its middle-ages, before the supremacy of Facebook but after Geocities. Pedro del Real (@triquidick) explores and reflects on different social media platforms, many having now disappeared, that played an important role in his teenage years.
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