The Internet Didn’t Change Us - The Jitney

The Internet Didn’t Change Us - The Jitney

It started for me with a hiss and a shriek, our dial-up modem screaming like it was dying. Watching the screen glow dim and blueish in the room, a hint of fear rose in my chest at the uncertainty of it all, this unknown plane. Fingers hovering over the keyboard like I was unlocking a portal, like we’d just found the proverbial closet door to Narnia. At the time, it seemed like a new form of life, something both alien and filled with possibility.…