Hey! I designed some of those '90s newspapers!

How anyone uses the web without NoScript baffles me, but people still use Chrome, too, so I don’t think I’m in the mainstream in terms of my internet use,

I’ll give them this: They certainly stayed on brand.

One might argue that OpenAI was not the first domino, just the one that got the most attention. Clippy feels quaint. Remember when you bought shit once and that meant you owned it?

Hell, I’m a Carter baby and lost faith in tech by working at a startup in 1999 that had no idea what it was doing and backtracked to just being a commodity product with zero name recognition – before that bubble burst. I quit after the all-hands where I asked what our distinct product now was and was told “that’s not for you to worry about.” It fucking is when most of my compensation is options.

404media usually does great work. The lack of editing here – missing crucial words, subject-verb agreement problems – makes this something I ducked out of halfway through.

I left for the final time in 2014, after the job market required me to rejoin just to get an interview. You shouldn’t have to sell data to a company to get a job. That we have normalized this is worrisome.