Internet Time Machine

Blogging Ourselves to Live

A eulogy for our former online selves

Photo by Nilotpal Kalita on Unsplash

This story is part of the Internet Time Machine, a collection about life online in the 2010s.

The air was surprisingly thin for a beach town and I was 2 A.M.-drunk (in the real world, it was about four in the afternoon). I stumbled through Rockaway, Queens looking for…