In July 2023, I flew to meet my girlfriend for the first time. In her company I felt a sense of belonging that I haven’t felt since I was a boy. Around the time I last remember feeling that way, I sat cross-legged in front of the TV and listened to Carl Sagan describe our consciousness as ‘a way for the Cosmos to know itself’.

Lately I have become increasingly sentimental about the meaningful experiences I have, and subsequently fearful that I won’t be able to remember them as long as I would like to. I'm worried that technology seeping in to every aspect of my life and bombarding me with information faster than I can process it is causing me to forget meaningful experiences I might otherwise have remembered.

The internet is no longer the place it once was, but I’ve been inspired by personal websites trying to reclaim the sense of excitement and humanity that characterised the old internet. Reading them has made me feel homesick for the internet I grew up on—where people just posted things they cared about and were interested in.

I hope that this will be something fun to look back on in future and remember.