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A review by iheartmuseums
Better Than IRL: True Stories About Finding Your People On The Untamed Internet by Katie West, Jasmine Elliot
4.0
Thinking back on the internet of my young adulthood, the MUDs and MUSHes, LiveJournal, usenet, message boards.. It was like living in a different world. I still find my people in pockets of the internet, but it isn't really the same. Everyone is extremely online nowadays, it seems. But back then..
These are missives from that different time, that different world. A multitude of experiences that all have a tinge of familiarity to me. People learning to know themselves, and others, as they connected on a strangely anonymous platform. People able to be themselves and connect outside of that platform. Finding friends and love and family in so many ways.
Thanks to the contributors for sharing their stories of another time. I hope the stories resonate with those folks who are traveling in a different internet now, but still making fast friends.
These are missives from that different time, that different world. A multitude of experiences that all have a tinge of familiarity to me. People learning to know themselves, and others, as they connected on a strangely anonymous platform. People able to be themselves and connect outside of that platform. Finding friends and love and family in so many ways.
Thanks to the contributors for sharing their stories of another time. I hope the stories resonate with those folks who are traveling in a different internet now, but still making fast friends.