He succinctly said what I've spent hours thinking, that for every group of introverted nerds that find one another is a group of racist conspiracy theorists finding one another.
“The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers” - thanks for sharing, John. I think I will also keep returning to this poem.
I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things. Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
If there was some kind of analog to it by the time I was 20-25, I appear to be able to "acquire" it. There was e-mail and usenet by that time, so I seem to be able to wrap my head around Twitter and Dreamwidth and so on. Video technology existed, and people who would talk to me, so Vlogbrothers makes sense. There were videogames and people who loved them, so Jacksepticeye? Groovy. But I can't figure out selfies and I don't own a cellphone and dread the day I will finally have to get one.
@@shannonwalls7573 I don't understand the use case for Twitter or Tumblr. Both seem to me to simply be shitty blogging platforms with most of the useful features removed.
@@qwertyTRiG Well, ironically I signed up for Twitter because of Nerdfighters; I wanted to continue to discuss the grief and loss panel at Nerdcon: Nerdfighteria with a couple of people who had facilitated it. I remain on it to follow a couple of favourite TH-camrs and some Nerdfighters and JSE community folks.
This episode felt like a very small episode of “The Anthropocene Reviewed”... which just so happens to be one of my very favorite things the internet does (along with enlightening me on global weather patterns of course)
I am very late but your instincts were right! It seems John adapted the script for this video into his review of the internet in the Anthropocene Reviewed book.
I’ve stayed up for so many p4as (7, 8, 9?) I don’t even know. It’s my favorite time of the year and my husband and I (we met in a nerdfighter group because OF COURSE we did.) have an annual P4a donation budget. Every year I cry, I laugh, I cringe. I feel at home. I am at home. I love this community so so so very much. Long may it continue. Thank you, John. Thank you, thank you, thank you. PS - Past 1.6 MILLION now!!!!!
John talking about the internet and how cool yet terrifying it is really hit home for me today, as I scroll through TH-cam instead of studying for that final I have to take in less than 4 hours. I should probably get back to that...
Abyss. All of others need my text only internet, with theme most recent #search always in address bar or bottom of screen, and all search terms always #highlighted as if "Find in Page" were turned on.
I don’t have a Twitter, but I wanted to let you know that I have never yelled at my phone as loud as I did while listening to Dear Hank and John yesterday. BATH BOMBS. BATH. BOMBS. So podcasts are one thing the internet gave me!
I felt the same way about this year’s P4A. This was either my 3rd or 4th year participating, but it was the first year I was able to watch most of the stream (no school or work), and I participated in the chat much more than usual. I live a life where I don’t really talk openly with others, due to social anxiety and trauma, and this was the first time I felt truly connected to other people in a long time. Everyone was SO supportive and kind to each other. It was just incredible seeing such a large group of people coming together to decrease world suck. P4A is the best time of the year 💕 on another note, this was the first year where I was financially able to donate enough to buy a perk, and it felt SO GOOD finally seeing my name on the lower third! My younger Nerdfighter self would be very proud
This thing where people tell me dad jokes because I don't like dad jokes is completely fascinating to me. Can't wait to hear this one from Hank on a future Dear Hank and John! :) -John
I feel liked it’s been a while since John casually reminded us of his poetry knowledge prowess with a perfectly referenced poem - it was quite comforting
dear nerdfighters, this is my first p4a and i'm eternally grateful for this community even though i feel kinda left out cause i just start to join it this year. this last few months have been difficult for me to be hopeful in my life but this lights up my heart and helps me to look forward on what tomorrow brings. thank you for being so welcoming and, of course, awesome. DFTBA! stay awesome, jey
I remember also feeling a bit left out when I first started watching Vlogbrothers. There's a lot of inside knowledge that's hard to pick up in a 4 minute video. No matter how long you've been watching, know that you're just as much a nerdfighter as any of us! DFTBA
This is the first time I've tried really hard to be an active participant in the P4A, and I'm so glad I did! I made a video that convinced my parents to donate, I stayed up until 3AM to watch Hank bite into a watermelon, and I felt so much closer to this community than I have in a while! It's times like these when it strikes me that Nerdfighteria has shaped my world view in ways I struggle to express. Everyone here is so kind, accepting, and open to listening to others and learning new things. Thanks, John, for fostering this community and giving me a place where I feel like I belong, no matter whatever else changes.
Even though I didn't get internet until a bit over 20 years ago, and by that point it was not green letters black screen... (It was, gods spare me, Netscape Navigator and Yahoo chat rooms) ...still it was a similar experience for me in that I had friends. A ton of friends. Sudden friends, fleeting friends, lifelong friends. More interaction and socialization than I had ever experienced in my life. Not all of it healthy, not all of it safe, but every moment was precious. The memories still are. I learned so much in the first six months of being "out in the wild" of the Internet. It was the first time that people saw me, not as the short, somewhat fluffy, horribly awkward girl, but as a person, an individual, and one that they wanted to know more about. Heady stuff for a kid like me, even if I was already in college by then. I was still very much a little kid, developmentally stunted I guess, but on the inside. And now, I watch this video, as I wait for the heart surgeons to finish their work on my husband, and take comfort from this same connection, ghostly as it is. People from all over the country have wished me and my husband well during this time; even as he was being prepped this morning I was receiving messages of support and love. Nothing else but those friends has gotten me through the past week of tests and preparation. Though I'm still trembling in fear of what might happen next, I know that I'll be able to make it through. What you fear about the Internet is also what you love about it - and it's the human beings behind the screens, that's what fuels both my joy and terror. I'm so glad that you and Hank are among those who share untarnished joy with us.
@Sonja Johnson - Here are some more good wishes for your husband and you, from a new, albeit a fleeting friend (one who understands and appreciates friendships made in the digital world)
@@Beryllahawk - I'm so glad to hear that he's doing well! Hopefully you have lots of mild activities to help him through recovery. I've had a few surgeries and once the anesthesia wears off, my brain is ready and raring to go -at least it is in fits and starts. Unfortunately, there are always physical limits after surgery. SG-1 got me through one recovery. Buffy the Vampire Slayer got me through another (I really didn't think I'd like a series about teenage vampires, but a friend strongly encouraged me to give it a chance, and in fact I really enjoyed it). Doctor Who got me through my latest recovery. They were all mentally engaging enough, that I didn't feel like I'd go insane, and when my energy started to wain they were easy enough to pause and come back to after a quick nap. I would have loved to have done some reading, but the first two surgeries left me in an odd position so I couldn't hold up a book for more than a few minutes. After the most recent surgery, I had friends with me almost non-stop during recovery, so we got to bond even more over Doctor Who. *_Here's hoping his recovery progresses quickly and without incident!_*
@@sarahp6512 I feel that. It was kind of the same feeling you get when you finish a good book: you look up, realize you're in the real world again and are kind of just like "...now what?" I'm glad you had a good time though!!
I did P4A the first year (recently I found all my old comments on videos!), and I still absolutely love the concept, and it's amazing to see how it's grown from just "let's replace all the boob thumbnails on TH-cam's front page with actual nonprofits" to "we raise a ton of money and do a livestream and make a big amazing thing." I was juuuust lucky enough that my dad worked in tech in the late 80s/early 90s and we had a dedicated landline just for internet in the house. It meant that I pretty much never had to worry about getting kicked off the internet, even back when my computer was black & white and friends would call you to tell you to get online. ICQ and AIM were such a large part of my lifeline to the world back then it's amazing to see that I owe learning how to use the internet early my whole career and friendships and relationship. Anyway, I'm rambling but yes, the internet. I love it.
I did not realize that you were ever a moderator. It makes a lot of sense, and offers the slightest reminder that my time spent moderating isn't something I should ever feel shame about.
The last time I saw my great-grandmother, she told my grandmother and I how she had grown up using an outhouse and (as she picked up the remote control) now she has a remote control to a color television, "just imagine how much is going to change in your lifetime". Obviously, that conversation was pretty memorable. It was only a couple years after that that I was introduced to the internet and got my first email address. I'm roughly half the age she was when we had that conversation, so I'm sure there are many more changes yet for me to experience!
I have that same nostalgia for the internet of 20 years ago. I'm also grateful that I was a fully-formed adult when I started using it - that I have a clear memory of pre-internet days. I'm grateful that I remember that we all hated meanness towards others from day one, and had that naiveté that it would never be normal. I'm grateful to remember that it isn't. I'm grateful to know now that any words that a person wouldn't say to my face are meaningless. That that hate is a weird psychological tricking of the brain, where some feel like there's not a real person on the other end - just words on a screen. And I'm grateful to know now that the things that people would say to me, say to anyone, are valuable and cherished. That the internet has also evolved to be one of the best ways for people to connect with and help each other. That there's so much beauty to experience because of the internet, and that I get to participate in it all. That so much knowledge is available right here, right now. Now we just need the wisdom to go with all of that. It took years to learn all this, and I hope that people who've never know a world without the internet will learn that quicker than I did.
I had the best P4A this year, it was the year that I was able to watch/ interact with the mot. I wasn't in uni anymore (so no finals) and I now have a full-time job and was able to finally donate this year (it wasn't a lot, but it was all I could for now). I also came in a time when I was about to burst out from stress and the P4A kept me calm and made me think about all the good things this community is getting together to do!
I can't really talk about the beginnings of the internet because I already grew up with it, but I had a kind of similar experience when I discovered Nerdfighteria last year. This Project For Awesome was the first one I engaged in (last year I didn't really understand what was going on, because I was new to the community), I even claimed the Digital Download Bundle and helped Anonymous having an amazing P4A, also I've signed up for Life's Library a few weeks ago, and I really love Nerdfighteria, John, Hank and all the things they do. When I'm in this part of the internet it really is great!
With the explosion of memes in recent years, I've come to realize that the internet is basically a great hive-mind of all human thoughts and emotions. Even though we seem more divided behind our screens than ever before I do feel a great sense of interconnectedness between all peoples and the physical barriers that have been set between us.
I feel the same about P4A. It's definitely my favorite internet related event, and I am grateful to Hank and John for allowing such a generous, thoughtful, and kind audience to build around them.
Ha! Funny story from the early days of dial-up internet (pay-by-the-minute internet over a telephone line). You'd actually need a separate telephone line to have internet, or you weren't able to make/receive phone calls while you were online. We had that, fortunately, but my parents told us that we couldn't go on the internet because it became expensive fast if you stayed online for any number of time. And us kids didn't know how to type fast. We just did the 2-or-3-finger typing where you had to "hunt down" each letter on the keyboard. So, in the mid-to-late 90 when I was in 6th grade the beaurocracy finally caught onto the fact that the internet wasn't just some fluke and that they really better train their students on it. They pretty much threw any teacher at this that would volunteer for it, because it wasn't really something that teachers had been trained for yet. The internet was that new. In my grade, there were 4 classes. Like, class 6a, 6b, etc. When I signed up for the IT class, my classmates and I were the last ones in the week to have our first IT lesson. So, during the week, we'd ask the other 3 classes in our grade what they were doing in IT. "Machine typing", was the answer from all 3. This was good! I'd finally be able to go on the internet at home, because I'd finally learn something usefull in school! None of that math nonsense that I'd never use - a real, applicable skill! I'd been telling my parents all about it the entire week, looking forward to IT class, and then it came and went and it wasn't machine typing. We'd do some basic SQL or HTML coding, which, in reality, was just re-typing the textbook into the computer. It was boring as hell, since back then you didn't have affordable hosting services for your own website. In essence, I learned how to code a very basic webpage, which, again, was something I couldn't use in real life. Machine typing - or the 10-finger-system as it is called here - would have been much better. It was far more basic, any teacher could walk their class through that. Why was my teaching lady not giving us these lessens as well? We thought she was being overly ambitious, like she wanted to brag to the other teachers that "her" students were able to code, or something. After a couple of weeks, the class broke down and we voiced this to her. Why, why Mrs. Teacher, can't we learn the 10-finger-system of machine typing that everyone else gets to learn? It's really usefull. I never forget her response, because she actually cursed. It was always weird when an adult cursed in front of kids, particularly in school. It virtually never happened. Our teacher lifted her hands in front of herself, so we could see that she was missing a digit on her left hand. 9-fingered, she looked us dead in the eyes and went "10-finger-system, my ass!", turned her back and left us standing there agape. :D
That Wordsworth quote has been my mood regarding social media for a few years now. It’s why I have to keep taking breaks from twitter-the scroll is never ending, even in my mind. It’s too much within me. Bo Burnham also had a good quote about social media integrating into how we perceive the world “the feeling of walking through your life and not just living your life, but taking inventory of your life, living and at the same hovering behind yourself and watching yourself live, being nostalgic for moments that havent happened yet, planning your future to look back on... those are really weird, strange dissociative things that are, I think, new, because of the specific structure of social media and the way it disassociates ourself from ourself”
To all my fellow nerdfighters, thanks for making this P4A so awesome. Everyone showed so much love and generosity! I felt a substantial decrease in personal suck, and I know that the money we raised is gonna help decrease world suck
I think that the P4A came at a good time this year. When the world seems so bad and hopeless, the P4A reminded us that people are (generally) good. Plus, the P4A was also just fun and a good way to destress before finals
It changed a lot. When I look back to the late 90ies I wonder what I actually spent my online time on. Obviously his was before TH-cam, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit, Netflix, Amazon existed. What did I do online? I remember chatting with my friends on ICQ and on forums but there was not that that much going on when browsing the web. Except learning about the weather in Beijing.
I remember spending time writing email primarily, then IRC chat rooms. Also by the late 90s I was building webpages and going down rabbit holes of linked websites.
This P4A reminded me of all the good things happening in the world in opposition to and in spite of all of the terrible things the internet likes to point out to me. I didn’t realize how tired and burnt out I was until a few hours into the livestream. Thank you guys for reminding me why I fell in love with online community in the first place! Despite its issues, there are sparks of compassion in that great void.
“With the internet you can download the apology of Socrates for free!” Ah yes what I’ve always wanted. Nah but this video is highly interesting, very engaging and a great use of my time while I’m ill and away from school. Thanks for making sickness something I have motivation to fight.
As weird and edgy as this sounds, sometimes I just have to listen to John to feel like theres an adult that understands teenagers when i feel so misunderstood by adults in my life hahaha
Yes!!! I'm SO grateful for this community and you guys and everybody that has supported it in any way. I'm so proud of us! It really helps keep me grounded in times like now, when sadness is around every corner. It is a little billboard behind some trees that reminds me that there is so much niceness in the world too. Thank you so much. This whole thing that started as two brothers talking more via videos has become one of the best beacons of hope. P.S. That last sentence is very ominous I am terrified.
You are right, this internet is a joyous yet scary place to exist. Finding a personal balance between its usefulness and destruction is a current challenge in my life. I hope you are enjoying day two of your one-year social media hiatus. You have inspired me to start one during the upcoming spring semester!
I get so much comfort opening my laptop after a hard day and seeing that a new vlogbrothers video is out. Seriously John and Hank, this channel + the Project for Awesome + all of your other channels/projects have gotten me through every day of the last five years. THANK YOU for making me part of something so important.
My favorite time of the year is P4A as it shows me that the internet isn't just a cesspool of hate and misery as I've come to feel. But there is still bright spots of positivity... I'd like to thank John, Hank,Orin,Katherine, Destin, Hannah, Mamrie, The Missoula crew, the hosts I missed out on, the lovely and supportive chat I got to experience and be apart of, the amazing mods and all of Nerdfighteria for making the world so much brighter and reminding me that the internet isn't complete suck.
It’s only been a few days but I already miss your online presence! It made today’s video feel extra special though, and I’m so glad that you’re doing what’s best for you that is makes the missing you feeling worth it. I hope things are well! 💛 I unfortunately couldn’t watch the P4A livestream this year (gunna watch the playbacks slowly but surely haha), but it really is one of my favorite times of year. It’s just a pocket of uplifting ridiculousness and the whole internet could do with a bit more of that. Maybe that’s why I miss you, since you add joy to my Internet experience - but it’s more important you add joy to your own life and share it in appropriate spaces/amounts, like vlogbrothers. Yikes, got rambly. See you next video, John!!! ☺️
My first experience with the internet was Les Miserables forums. Magenta letters on a black screen. The P4A this year was a warm and lovely experience. Laughing and smiling at the end :)
Thoughts from Places: The Internet :-) One of the questions on the 2018 Nerdfighteria Census was whether I'm more of a Hank or a John. I'm very involved in science and education and online video and science education VIA online video, but... in my heart I'm much more of a John, and I never feel more that way than when I watch videos like this. The way you think and feel and express yourself never fails to resonate in my own heart and mind. Thank you for sharing those things with the world so people like me can feel just a little bit more connected. It means a lot.
The internet is not a thing. The internet is us. The internet is not horrible. We are horrible. The internet is not wonderful. We are wonderful. My issue with the internet is that we me's have a hard time thinking of all of the other me's as we.
Never Assume a Spherical Cow I totally understand what you are saying. Whenever someone says the internet does x, I think "No the internet has no agency; it is people." However, the internet is a platform and platforms have an effect on how people use them. The internet as a platform predisposes us to not think of others as people, or at least not to think of them complexly.
”We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.” -The Borg (Star Trek)
Ah, the good 'ol sound of dial-up... I have to admit that sometimes I miss it, but I also like having super fast wifi. There are pros and cons to the internet, and I have to say, P4A is definitely one of the biggest pros in my book. I always like hanging out in the chat during the live stream, even if I really should be working on something else. It is an event that stresses me out (reminds me that finals are coming up) but at the same time, it is just so relaxing to chat with people like that. This year, I found out about Pink Fluffy Unicorns... *mind blown* it is amazing to see how things are live, even though I won't be able to watch it at 1.5 speed until it has been archived. There is just something about being in the moment via the internet that makes P4A that much more special.
Ya know what, today my friend was at my house. Yes, there’s more. I handed her The Fault In Our Stars cause I thought she would like it. I turned it over, pointed to your picture, and was like, ya know, that’s the guy who does the videos for social studies, and her jaw literally dropped.
I also remember the moment I discovered the possibilities of the Internet. I was like 14 or 15 and one of my friends told me about pottermore... *it changed my life!* I don't know where I'd be right now without the Internet
I'm so young that I was born the year before the iPhone came out. I don't understand how awesome it was to have a black box with green letters on it, but I think I'm understanding it better as I get older. Thanks for this sentimental video.
I remember my first internet forum. Even though the internet has been around for as long as I have been alive, it wasn’t available to me on a steady basis until O was about 12. I found a community chat room for the fan base of what was then my favorite band. I made a very good friend when I needed one. And then, even more personally important, I found TH-cam and I found this. Thank you for being the first community I’ve ever considered myself part of, Nerdfighteria.
My earliest internet memory is when an article on the news talked about a science project of slicing a human body into separate images, and I wanted to see that in more detail, and there were "high" resolution images online of them free for anybody to have a look at. I thought it was amazing that you didn't have to wait for days, weeks, or months for it to appear in a magazine you had to locate and pay for if you even remembered you were looking for it. It was immediacy, it was more detail, it was for niche interests, everything I still love about the internet. Also nudey pics, but that was a later discovery.
Thanks for giving us the space to come together and be excited about charity and foam dinonauts going to the moon, John! You are helping us to help to make the Internet a place where so much good is done. DFTBA!
I remember Compuserve. I never had it, but my best friend did. I would call her house and get a busy signal, so I knew someone in her family was online. Not long after that, my family got AOL, and I spent hours in AOL chat rooms. I specifically remember when another friend was on a trip in South Africa, and we chatted over AOL Instant Messenger. It just absolutely blew my mind that our messages could circle the globe in a tiny fraction of a second. It still does blow my mind if I think hard enough about it.
I wish I was around at the time when internet consisted of green letters on a black screen. It must have been such an interesting experience to see it change over the years!
I love when dear hank and John topics that you have clearly been thinking about for a while make it to your other content. It makes my fandom/interest in your content/idk how to describe our parasocial relationship???? feel more rewarding
The good of the internet definitely outweighs the bad. But, I imagine in future years kids will learn how to use the internet in a 'healthy way' in school. People today are so connected that I think enough will cumulate in the next few years that will result in a much-needed detox.
The culture doesn't have our health in mind usually though, if you've noticed. Or our education. They just want you to stop thinking and start being a good little worker bee / consumer.
"We can do so much more together than we could do alone". This is so true. I just feel like platforms are designed more and more for individualism these days. Togetherness and community need to come back to the foreground of the internet. Remember video responses?
It's cold in Norway - about 20cm snow.. A lovely video, taking me back in time to the Internet of 36kbps...>my phone now has 45000kbps.. Yet I am not sure it gives me more.. At least not on average.. But this video did! Thanks /me hugs vlogbrothers
Do you know what I find fascinating. England (London) is know for its rain yet has only around 600mm precipitation per year. Australia (Sydney) is known for its great sunny weather yet has 1200mm of precipitation a year. Then again, hours of sunshine are 1600 v 2600 per year respectively.
This is one of the most relatable videos for me that you have made in a long time. I have spent so much time developing the friends I have met through the internet, they are almost better than my real friends
All the feels. The livestream, fundraising and and considerate discussion reminded me how much enthusiasm, kindness and hope is present today... especially in this community. Proud to call nerdfighteria home. DFTBA
Also I remember oh so well that wondrous feeling when I first got online in 1993. The newsgroups filled with people from around the world, the excitement of discovering an FTP repository, and the budding web with its sites of amusing and esoteric goodies. It felt different too, with communities being smaller it was easier to feel an active part of them, easier to be known and meet people. And I met many friends on there, some of whom are still friends today. A magic box indeed.
Oh, nostalgia! I recognize myself so much in this! Your story is my story as well! For me the really big one was when I discovered IRC. Suddenly I could talk to people, right there and then! Real people that were sitting by their computers just as I was! Several of these people even became real life friends after a while, as we were in the same town. Others I met at music festivals etc. Everywhere I went, I knew people. Because of internet!
I love how I've been inspired by Nerdfighteria and people in my life to make real life places and virtual spaces into homes. I love all the homes I am connected to and I'm so cheese doodle guy grateful to contribute to so much drip-by-drip. P4A is my heart core reminder of that. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
I remember the day when I first realised that I could create my own email address that wasn't my school email address. Even that "new" Internet was a wonder.
Connecting with people that I don't speak to for the rest of the year on the P4A chat is the highlight of the weekend for me. Is the P4A recap video coming on Friday?
For me in the somewhat early days of the internet, it was cartoon network's games that i went to. Also email, and the only way i was able to keep in touch with my first best friend after he moved away. Eventually we lost touch/emails of each other, but I still remember him well. Miss you lucas, wherever you may be now.
Being a child born in the 21st century, I think we all have had that one summer of just being on the internet at a young age and not remembering a single outdoors thing. That happened for me after 2nd grade when I discovered what DVDs were and how to play them without my parents. I ended up staying in an empty refrigerator box with the small portable TV at the open end watching Spy Kids over and over again all summer long. That was a great summer.
This year's P4A has been amazing. Thank you to everybody who participated, you helped make one of the best experiences of my life! I'm do glad there's a place on the Internet where we can focus on doing good instead of participating in the seemingly omnipresent negativity. DFTBA!
If anyone's wondering, it's very cold in Beijing right now.
Its also very cold in Maine 😁
I'm rather wondering where Beijing is
and it's freezing in Sweden
@@patblack781 you know, internet can tell you that too!
It’s also cold here in Florida
“What I love about the internet is also what I fear about the internet: we can do so much more together than we can do alone.”
That’s the thing.
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He succinctly said what I've spent hours thinking, that for every group of introverted nerds that find one another is a group of racist conspiracy theorists finding one another.
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“The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers” - thanks for sharing, John. I think I will also keep returning to this poem.
There's a lot to get out of this video, but all I can think right now is that John Green was the dude deleting my CompuServe posts back in '94.
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I’m so proud of nerdfighteria for completing another awesome p4a. $1.6 Million!!!
I love videos with personal & historical contexts for wide-ranging things :)
Than you have found your channel here :)
With the internet, you can binge watch two brothers talking in front of a camera! What a time to be alive!
I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
YES DOUG ADAMS
I should go read that book now
If there was some kind of analog to it by the time I was 20-25, I appear to be able to "acquire" it. There was e-mail and usenet by that time, so I seem to be able to wrap my head around Twitter and Dreamwidth and so on. Video technology existed, and people who would talk to me, so Vlogbrothers makes sense. There were videogames and people who loved them, so Jacksepticeye? Groovy. But I can't figure out selfies and I don't own a cellphone and dread the day I will finally have to get one.
@@shannonwalls7573 I don't understand the use case for Twitter or Tumblr. Both seem to me to simply be shitty blogging platforms with most of the useful features removed.
@@ellw7830 The Salmon of Doubt is incomplete: it was published posthumously. But it's got some good stuff in it.
@@qwertyTRiG Well, ironically I signed up for Twitter because of Nerdfighters; I wanted to continue to discuss the grief and loss panel at Nerdcon: Nerdfighteria with a couple of people who had facilitated it. I remain on it to follow a couple of favourite TH-camrs and some Nerdfighters and JSE community folks.
This episode felt like a very small episode of “The Anthropocene Reviewed”... which just so happens to be one of my very favorite things the internet does (along with enlightening me on global weather patterns of course)
I am very late but your instincts were right! It seems John adapted the script for this video into his review of the internet in the Anthropocene Reviewed book.
I’ve stayed up for so many p4as (7, 8, 9?) I don’t even know. It’s my favorite time of the year and my husband and I (we met in a nerdfighter group because OF COURSE we did.) have an annual P4a donation budget. Every year I cry, I laugh, I cringe. I feel at home. I am at home. I love this community so so so very much. Long may it continue. Thank you, John. Thank you, thank you, thank you. PS - Past 1.6 MILLION now!!!!!
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I too still have a p4a tab open on my system. 9 more hours...
I keep checking it. I love it. Feels like such a team effort.
Wow, that is lovely! I'm happy to be part of the community with you!
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John talking about the internet and how cool yet terrifying it is really hit home for me today, as I scroll through TH-cam instead of studying for that final I have to take in less than 4 hours. I should probably get back to that...
Isabel Song good luck!!! 💖
now if that isn't a mood
@@thewinterizzy thanks!!
As someone who's reading these comments instead of studying for my exam tomorrow, I feel you. Good luck! I believe in you!!
Abyss. All of others need my text only internet, with theme most recent #search always in address bar or bottom of screen, and all search terms always #highlighted as if "Find in Page" were turned on.
I don’t have a Twitter, but I wanted to let you know that I have never yelled at my phone as loud as I did while listening to Dear Hank and John yesterday. BATH BOMBS. BATH. BOMBS. So podcasts are one thing the internet gave me!
I felt the same way about this year’s P4A. This was either my 3rd or 4th year participating, but it was the first year I was able to watch most of the stream (no school or work), and I participated in the chat much more than usual. I live a life where I don’t really talk openly with others, due to social anxiety and trauma, and this was the first time I felt truly connected to other people in a long time. Everyone was SO supportive and kind to each other. It was just incredible seeing such a large group of people coming together to decrease world suck. P4A is the best time of the year 💕 on another note, this was the first year where I was financially able to donate enough to buy a perk, and it felt SO GOOD finally seeing my name on the lower third! My younger Nerdfighter self would be very proud
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Why did the bike fall over
Because it was two tired
The human cannonball was late for work
And he got fired.
This thing where people tell me dad jokes because I don't like dad jokes is completely fascinating to me. Can't wait to hear this one from Hank on a future Dear Hank and John! :) -John
DrPepper 4390 what is it called when Batman leaves Mass early?
Christian Bale
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John, clearly you don't know your brother's songs as well as we do.
@@oscarmccormack1611 If you don't pay your exorcist
You'll get repossessed.
I feel liked it’s been a while since John casually reminded us of his poetry knowledge prowess with a perfectly referenced poem - it was quite comforting
dear nerdfighters,
this is my first p4a and i'm eternally grateful for this community even though i feel kinda left out cause i just start to join it this year. this last few months have been difficult for me to be hopeful in my life but this lights up my heart and helps me to look forward on what tomorrow brings. thank you for being so welcoming and, of course, awesome. DFTBA!
stay awesome,
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I remember also feeling a bit left out when I first started watching Vlogbrothers. There's a lot of inside knowledge that's hard to pick up in a 4 minute video. No matter how long you've been watching, know that you're just as much a nerdfighter as any of us! DFTBA
Welcome to the team! DFTBA! :)
This is the first time I've tried really hard to be an active participant in the P4A, and I'm so glad I did! I made a video that convinced my parents to donate, I stayed up until 3AM to watch Hank bite into a watermelon, and I felt so much closer to this community than I have in a while! It's times like these when it strikes me that Nerdfighteria has shaped my world view in ways I struggle to express. Everyone here is so kind, accepting, and open to listening to others and learning new things. Thanks, John, for fostering this community and giving me a place where I feel like I belong, no matter whatever else changes.
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Even though I didn't get internet until a bit over 20 years ago, and by that point it was not green letters black screen...
(It was, gods spare me, Netscape Navigator and Yahoo chat rooms)
...still it was a similar experience for me in that I had friends. A ton of friends. Sudden friends, fleeting friends, lifelong friends. More interaction and socialization than I had ever experienced in my life. Not all of it healthy, not all of it safe, but every moment was precious. The memories still are. I learned so much in the first six months of being "out in the wild" of the Internet. It was the first time that people saw me, not as the short, somewhat fluffy, horribly awkward girl, but as a person, an individual, and one that they wanted to know more about.
Heady stuff for a kid like me, even if I was already in college by then. I was still very much a little kid, developmentally stunted I guess, but on the inside.
And now, I watch this video, as I wait for the heart surgeons to finish their work on my husband, and take comfort from this same connection, ghostly as it is. People from all over the country have wished me and my husband well during this time; even as he was being prepped this morning I was receiving messages of support and love. Nothing else but those friends has gotten me through the past week of tests and preparation. Though I'm still trembling in fear of what might happen next, I know that I'll be able to make it through.
What you fear about the Internet is also what you love about it - and it's the human beings behind the screens, that's what fuels both my joy and terror. I'm so glad that you and Hank are among those who share untarnished joy with us.
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@Sonja Johnson - Here are some more good wishes for your husband and you, from a new, albeit a fleeting friend (one who understands and appreciates friendships made in the digital world)
@@im.empimp Thanks! It means a lot! He is fine so far, and sleeping. The next part is recovery.
@@Beryllahawk - I'm so glad to hear that he's doing well!
Hopefully you have lots of mild activities to help him through recovery. I've had a few surgeries and once the anesthesia wears off, my brain is ready and raring to go -at least it is in fits and starts. Unfortunately, there are always physical limits after surgery.
SG-1 got me through one recovery.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer got me through another (I really didn't think I'd like a series about teenage vampires, but a friend strongly encouraged me to give it a chance, and in fact I really enjoyed it).
Doctor Who got me through my latest recovery.
They were all mentally engaging enough, that I didn't feel like I'd go insane, and when my energy started to wain they were easy enough to pause and come back to after a quick nap.
I would have loved to have done some reading, but the first two surgeries left me in an odd position so I couldn't hold up a book for more than a few minutes. After the most recent surgery, I had friends with me almost non-stop during recovery, so we got to bond even more over Doctor Who.
*_Here's hoping his recovery progresses quickly and without incident!_*
This was my first p4a, and it was absolutely incredible.
That being said post-p4a depression is hitting me hard right now.
@@sarahp6512 I feel that. It was kind of the same feeling you get when you finish a good book: you look up, realize you're in the real world again and are kind of just like "...now what?" I'm glad you had a good time though!!
@@risxra That's exactly what it felt like!
🙏 Welcome!
soon christmas stress will take over post-p4a depression
But did you ever find out WHERE THE LIBRARY WAS????
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I did P4A the first year (recently I found all my old comments on videos!), and I still absolutely love the concept, and it's amazing to see how it's grown from just "let's replace all the boob thumbnails on TH-cam's front page with actual nonprofits" to "we raise a ton of money and do a livestream and make a big amazing thing."
I was juuuust lucky enough that my dad worked in tech in the late 80s/early 90s and we had a dedicated landline just for internet in the house. It meant that I pretty much never had to worry about getting kicked off the internet, even back when my computer was black & white and friends would call you to tell you to get online. ICQ and AIM were such a large part of my lifeline to the world back then it's amazing to see that I owe learning how to use the internet early my whole career and friendships and relationship. Anyway, I'm rambling but yes, the internet. I love it.
I did not realize that you were ever a moderator. It makes a lot of sense, and offers the slightest reminder that my time spent moderating isn't something I should ever feel shame about.
And this vid, dear friends, encapsulates much of what I love about John and Hank Green. Big hugzes to all.
The last time I saw my great-grandmother, she told my grandmother and I how she had grown up using an outhouse and (as she picked up the remote control) now she has a remote control to a color television, "just imagine how much is going to change in your lifetime". Obviously, that conversation was pretty memorable. It was only a couple years after that that I was introduced to the internet and got my first email address. I'm roughly half the age she was when we had that conversation, so I'm sure there are many more changes yet for me to experience!
I have that same nostalgia for the internet of 20 years ago. I'm also grateful that I was a fully-formed adult when I started using it - that I have a clear memory of pre-internet days. I'm grateful that I remember that we all hated meanness towards others from day one, and had that naiveté that it would never be normal. I'm grateful to remember that it isn't.
I'm grateful to know now that any words that a person wouldn't say to my face are meaningless. That that hate is a weird psychological tricking of the brain, where some feel like there's not a real person on the other end - just words on a screen.
And I'm grateful to know now that the things that people would say to me, say to anyone, are valuable and cherished. That the internet has also evolved to be one of the best ways for people to connect with and help each other. That there's so much beauty to experience because of the internet, and that I get to participate in it all. That so much knowledge is available right here, right now.
Now we just need the wisdom to go with all of that.
It took years to learn all this, and I hope that people who've never know a world without the internet will learn that quicker than I did.
Yes. I got online in college. My childhood was spent outdoors or in books.
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CynicallyHopeful thank you for sharing :)
I had the best P4A this year, it was the year that I was able to watch/ interact with the mot. I wasn't in uni anymore (so no finals) and I now have a full-time job and was able to finally donate this year (it wasn't a lot, but it was all I could for now). I also came in a time when I was about to burst out from stress and the P4A kept me calm and made me think about all the good things this community is getting together to do!
I can't really talk about the beginnings of the internet because I already grew up with it, but I had a kind of similar experience when I discovered Nerdfighteria last year. This Project For Awesome was the first one I engaged in (last year I didn't really understand what was going on, because I was new to the community), I even claimed the Digital Download Bundle and helped Anonymous having an amazing P4A, also I've signed up for Life's Library a few weeks ago, and I really love Nerdfighteria, John, Hank and all the things they do. When I'm in this part of the internet it really is great!
With the explosion of memes in recent years, I've come to realize that the internet is basically a great hive-mind of all human thoughts and emotions. Even though we seem more divided behind our screens than ever before I do feel a great sense of interconnectedness between all peoples and the physical barriers that have been set between us.
"These days after drinking from the internet's firehose for more than 25 years," lol John your author is showing.
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i can't explain it but so much of this video feels like a spoken word poem
I feel the same about P4A. It's definitely my favorite internet related event, and I am grateful to Hank and John for allowing such a generous, thoughtful, and kind audience to build around them.
Ha! Funny story from the early days of dial-up internet (pay-by-the-minute internet over a telephone line).
You'd actually need a separate telephone line to have internet, or you weren't able to make/receive phone calls while you were online.
We had that, fortunately, but my parents told us that we couldn't go on the internet because it became expensive fast if you stayed online for any number of time. And us kids didn't know how to type fast. We just did the 2-or-3-finger typing where you had to "hunt down" each letter on the keyboard.
So, in the mid-to-late 90 when I was in 6th grade the beaurocracy finally caught onto the fact that the internet wasn't just some fluke and that they really better train their students on it.
They pretty much threw any teacher at this that would volunteer for it, because it wasn't really something that teachers had been trained for yet. The internet was that new.
In my grade, there were 4 classes. Like, class 6a, 6b, etc.
When I signed up for the IT class, my classmates and I were the last ones in the week to have our first IT lesson. So, during the week, we'd ask the other 3 classes in our grade what they were doing in IT.
"Machine typing", was the answer from all 3. This was good! I'd finally be able to go on the internet at home, because I'd finally learn something usefull in school!
None of that math nonsense that I'd never use - a real, applicable skill!
I'd been telling my parents all about it the entire week, looking forward to IT class, and then it came and went and it wasn't machine typing. We'd do some basic SQL or HTML coding, which, in reality, was just re-typing the textbook into the computer.
It was boring as hell, since back then you didn't have affordable hosting services for your own website. In essence, I learned how to code a very basic webpage, which, again, was something I couldn't use in real life.
Machine typing - or the 10-finger-system as it is called here - would have been much better. It was far more basic, any teacher could walk their class through that.
Why was my teaching lady not giving us these lessens as well? We thought she was being overly ambitious, like she wanted to brag to the other teachers that "her" students were able to code, or something.
After a couple of weeks, the class broke down and we voiced this to her. Why, why Mrs. Teacher, can't we learn the 10-finger-system of machine typing that everyone else gets to learn? It's really usefull.
I never forget her response, because she actually cursed. It was always weird when an adult cursed in front of kids, particularly in school. It virtually never happened.
Our teacher lifted her hands in front of herself, so we could see that she was missing a digit on her left hand.
9-fingered, she looked us dead in the eyes and went "10-finger-system, my ass!", turned her back and left us standing there agape.
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This was one of my favorite P4As I’ve ever been a part of. I love this community
That Wordsworth quote has been my mood regarding social media for a few years now. It’s why I have to keep taking breaks from twitter-the scroll is never ending, even in my mind. It’s too much within me.
Bo Burnham also had a good quote about social media integrating into how we perceive the world “the feeling of walking through your life and not just living your life, but taking inventory of your life, living and at the same hovering behind yourself and watching yourself live, being nostalgic for moments that havent happened yet, planning your future to look back on... those are really weird, strange dissociative things that are, I think, new, because of the specific structure of social media and the way it disassociates ourself from ourself”
To all my fellow nerdfighters, thanks for making this P4A so awesome. Everyone showed so much love and generosity! I felt a substantial decrease in personal suck, and I know that the money we raised is gonna help decrease world suck
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Ikr, the Dream Sequences never would've been solved without the internet but like, I'm still not sure Carl is good so
I think when the novelty wears off, Carl is going to move on.
Omg this reminded me of the plot and now I desperately need the sequel to come out!!
I think that the P4A came at a good time this year. When the world seems so bad and hopeless, the P4A reminded us that people are (generally) good. Plus, the P4A was also just fun and a good way to destress before finals
Has the internet really changed all that much? I'm always amazed that on the internet I can find out the weather of Beijing!
It contains a lot more pictures these days. Not to mention moving pictures.... -John
It changed a lot. When I look back to the late 90ies I wonder what I actually spent my online time on. Obviously his was before TH-cam, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit, Netflix, Amazon existed. What did I do online? I remember chatting with my friends on ICQ and on forums but there was not that that much going on when browsing the web. Except learning about the weather in Beijing.
I remember spending time writing email primarily, then IRC chat rooms. Also by the late 90s I was building webpages and going down rabbit holes of linked websites.
This P4A reminded me of all the good things happening in the world in opposition to and in spite of all of the terrible things the internet likes to point out to me. I didn’t realize how tired and burnt out I was until a few hours into the livestream. Thank you guys for reminding me why I fell in love with online community in the first place! Despite its issues, there are sparks of compassion in that great void.
“With the internet you can download the apology of Socrates for free!” Ah yes what I’ve always wanted.
Nah but this video is highly interesting, very engaging and a great use of my time while I’m ill and away from school. Thanks for making sickness something I have motivation to fight.
Thanks for saying that this video was a good use of your time. That's what I hope our vids can be! Hope you're resting up in peace! -John
vlogbrothers thanks so much John!
I mean, the nerdiness does have to come from *somewhere* ... (Referring to the first line in your comment.)
Haha true that!
As weird and edgy as this sounds, sometimes I just have to listen to John to feel like theres an adult that understands teenagers when i feel so misunderstood by adults in my life hahaha
SEREN ASHMORE I do the same thing
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I do the same thing... And I'm an adult. Technically. By virtue of age.
this week has been finals week at my school so I haven't been up to date on the P4A. It's so cool that everyone raised that much for charity!
"What I love about the internet is also what I fear about the internet: we can do so much more together than alone."- John Green
Yes!!! I'm SO grateful for this community and you guys and everybody that has supported it in any way. I'm so proud of us! It really helps keep me grounded in times like now, when sadness is around every corner. It is a little billboard behind some trees that reminds me that there is so much niceness in the world too. Thank you so much. This whole thing that started as two brothers talking more via videos has become one of the best beacons of hope.
P.S. That last sentence is very ominous I am terrified.
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I remember going over to that one friend's house that had internet.. Amazing how things have changed in 20 years..
Thank you for everything you do, John!!
You are right, this internet is a joyous yet scary place to exist. Finding a personal balance between its usefulness and destruction is a current challenge in my life. I hope you are enjoying day two of your one-year social media hiatus. You have inspired me to start one during the upcoming spring semester!
I get so much comfort opening my laptop after a hard day and seeing that a new vlogbrothers video is out. Seriously John and Hank, this channel + the Project for Awesome + all of your other channels/projects have gotten me through every day of the last five years. THANK YOU for making me part of something so important.
My favorite time of the year is P4A as it shows me that the internet isn't just a cesspool of hate and misery as I've come to feel. But there is still bright spots of positivity... I'd like to thank John, Hank,Orin,Katherine, Destin, Hannah, Mamrie, The Missoula crew, the hosts I missed out on, the lovely and supportive chat I got to experience and be apart of, the amazing mods and all of Nerdfighteria for making the world so much brighter and reminding me that the internet isn't complete suck.
It’s only been a few days but I already miss your online presence! It made today’s video feel extra special though, and I’m so glad that you’re doing what’s best for you that is makes the missing you feeling worth it. I hope things are well! 💛 I unfortunately couldn’t watch the P4A livestream this year (gunna watch the playbacks slowly but surely haha), but it really is one of my favorite times of year. It’s just a pocket of uplifting ridiculousness and the whole internet could do with a bit more of that. Maybe that’s why I miss you, since you add joy to my Internet experience - but it’s more important you add joy to your own life and share it in appropriate spaces/amounts, like vlogbrothers. Yikes, got rambly. See you next video, John!!! ☺️
My first experience with the internet was Les Miserables forums. Magenta letters on a black screen.
The P4A this year was a warm and lovely experience. Laughing and smiling at the end :)
My sister has kind of the same story and it's my favorite kind of story. Meeting friends online without any pictures of them, all so connected...
That was beautiful, John. It brought a tear to my eye
Thoughts from Places: The Internet :-)
One of the questions on the 2018 Nerdfighteria Census was whether I'm more of a Hank or a John. I'm very involved in science and education and online video and science education VIA online video, but... in my heart I'm much more of a John, and I never feel more that way than when I watch videos like this. The way you think and feel and express yourself never fails to resonate in my own heart and mind. Thank you for sharing those things with the world so people like me can feel just a little bit more connected. It means a lot.
The internet is not a thing.
The internet is us.
The internet is not horrible.
We are horrible.
The internet is not wonderful.
We are wonderful.
My issue with the internet is that we me's have a hard time thinking of all of the other me's as we.
Never Assume a Spherical Cow I totally understand what you are saying. Whenever someone says the internet does x, I think "No the internet has no agency; it is people." However, the internet is a platform and platforms have an effect on how people use them. The internet as a platform predisposes us to not think of others as people, or at least not to think of them complexly.
@@cubeofcheese5574 and what about the attention economy?
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”We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.” -The Borg (Star Trek)
damn you cow, you make sing I am a stone
Ah, complexity.
Bittersweet, contrastingly delightful complexity and/or overwhelming and oversaturated saccharine complexity.
* gets nostalgic about the dial-up sound *
Each year, the Project for Awesome gives me hope for humanity. I am so grateful for that; and for this community. 💜
I love it when you share poetry, it always hits me right where I need it to. Thank you for this video, John
Ah, the good 'ol sound of dial-up... I have to admit that sometimes I miss it, but I also like having super fast wifi. There are pros and cons to the internet, and I have to say, P4A is definitely one of the biggest pros in my book. I always like hanging out in the chat during the live stream, even if I really should be working on something else. It is an event that stresses me out (reminds me that finals are coming up) but at the same time, it is just so relaxing to chat with people like that. This year, I found out about Pink Fluffy Unicorns... *mind blown* it is amazing to see how things are live, even though I won't be able to watch it at 1.5 speed until it has been archived. There is just something about being in the moment via the internet that makes P4A that much more special.
Ya know what, today my friend was at my house. Yes, there’s more. I handed her The Fault In Our Stars cause I thought she would like it. I turned it over, pointed to your picture, and was like, ya know, that’s the guy who does the videos for social studies, and her jaw literally dropped.
I love everything about this story. I hope your friend enjoys the book!
I also remember the moment I discovered the possibilities of the Internet. I was like 14 or 15 and one of my friends told me about pottermore... *it changed my life!* I don't know where I'd be right now without the Internet
A fellow potterhead, hello! ⚡
@@monicaganderson9431 Hi, nice to meet you! =D
I miss the old pottermore! 😭
@@rurounikp Me too
That last line... wow. For good or for ill, we can do so much more together. Well said and profound.
I'm so young that I was born the year before the iPhone came out. I don't understand how awesome it was to have a black box with green letters on it, but I think I'm understanding it better as I get older. Thanks for this sentimental video.
The wrinkled Wimbledon scarf made me notice the books about to fall over and now I can't not look at it
I remember my first internet forum. Even though the internet has been around for as long as I have been alive, it wasn’t available to me on a steady basis until O was about 12. I found a community chat room for the fan base of what was then my favorite band. I made a very good friend when I needed one. And then, even more personally important, I found TH-cam and I found this. Thank you for being the first community I’ve ever considered myself part of, Nerdfighteria.
The p4a was a lot of fun this year - the livestream chat was a good place to be!! Thanks again everyone!
P4A was such a blast!! I am so so grateful to have found such an amazing community, thanks to you and Hank!
How do you two consistently create videos that are just so damn beautiful?
Maybe I’m weird for thinking this is beautiful.
That's all nice and dandy, John, but ...
Où *est* la bibliothèque?
I'm guessing it's probably on the internet? I'm sure we have one in my city, but I'm not sure and once lived here for 3 years🤔
Sry the once is supposed to be an I've
And there should be a where after the second "sure". I wish I wasn't on my phone so I could just edit the original comment lol.
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I did not even notice. I was too pre-occupied with hoping John would tell me où la bibliothèque is.
My earliest internet memory is when an article on the news talked about a science project of slicing a human body into separate images, and I wanted to see that in more detail, and there were "high" resolution images online of them free for anybody to have a look at. I thought it was amazing that you didn't have to wait for days, weeks, or months for it to appear in a magazine you had to locate and pay for if you even remembered you were looking for it. It was immediacy, it was more detail, it was for niche interests, everything I still love about the internet.
Also nudey pics, but that was a later discovery.
This takes me back to 1989 and my first venture onto the primitive internet.
87 for me!
Thanks for giving us the space to come together and be excited about charity and foam dinonauts going to the moon, John! You are helping us to help to make the Internet a place where so much good is done. DFTBA!
Had to come here after reading TAR
I found truly became a citizen of the Internet when I found Nerdfighteria. I've been here for almost four years now, and it's wonderful.
I remember Compuserve. I never had it, but my best friend did. I would call her house and get a busy signal, so I knew someone in her family was online. Not long after that, my family got AOL, and I spent hours in AOL chat rooms. I specifically remember when another friend was on a trip in South Africa, and we chatted over AOL Instant Messenger. It just absolutely blew my mind that our messages could circle the globe in a tiny fraction of a second. It still does blow my mind if I think hard enough about it.
This P4A was so cool, I'm so happy I was a part of it
I wish I was around at the time when internet consisted of green letters on a black screen. It must have been such an interesting experience to see it change over the years!
Remember the good old days of dial-up when your mom would yell at you to get off the internet so she could use the phone?
Nerfighteria is by far the best corner of the internet and I’m so grateful 💜 DFTBA!
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I love when dear hank and John topics that you have clearly been thinking about for a while make it to your other content. It makes my fandom/interest in your content/idk how to describe our parasocial relationship???? feel more rewarding
The good of the internet definitely outweighs the bad. But, I imagine in future years kids will learn how to use the internet in a 'healthy way' in school. People today are so connected that I think enough will cumulate in the next few years that will result in a much-needed detox.
The culture doesn't have our health in mind usually though, if you've noticed. Or our education. They just want you to stop thinking and start being a good little worker bee / consumer.
"We can do so much more together than we could do alone". This is so true. I just feel like platforms are designed more and more for individualism these days. Togetherness and community need to come back to the foreground of the internet. Remember video responses?
It's cold in Norway - about 20cm snow.. A lovely video, taking me back in time to the Internet of 36kbps...>my phone now has 45000kbps.. Yet I am not sure it gives me more.. At least not on average.. But this video did! Thanks /me hugs vlogbrothers
Don’t worry everyone. It’s raining in England.
Do you know what I find fascinating.
England (London) is know for its rain yet has only around 600mm precipitation per year.
Australia (Sydney) is known for its great sunny weather yet has 1200mm of precipitation a year.
Then again, hours of sunshine are 1600 v 2600 per year respectively.
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This is one of the most relatable videos for me that you have made in a long time. I have spent so much time developing the friends I have met through the internet, they are almost better than my real friends
Ah the time when the internet was pure and John is here to still remind us that humanity exist
All the feels. The livestream, fundraising and and considerate discussion reminded me how much enthusiasm, kindness and hope is present today... especially in this community. Proud to call nerdfighteria home. DFTBA
My favorite thing about internet is John Green videos
Also I remember oh so well that wondrous feeling when I first got online in 1993. The newsgroups filled with people from around the world, the excitement of discovering an FTP repository, and the budding web with its sites of amusing and esoteric goodies. It felt different too, with communities being smaller it was easier to feel an active part of them, easier to be known and meet people. And I met many friends on there, some of whom are still friends today. A magic box indeed.
Oh, nostalgia! I recognize myself so much in this! Your story is my story as well! For me the really big one was when I discovered IRC. Suddenly I could talk to people, right there and then! Real people that were sitting by their computers just as I was! Several of these people even became real life friends after a while, as we were in the same town. Others I met at music festivals etc. Everywhere I went, I knew people. Because of internet!
I love how I've been inspired by Nerdfighteria and people in my life to make real life places and virtual spaces into homes. I love all the homes I am connected to and I'm so cheese doodle guy grateful to contribute to so much drip-by-drip. P4A is my heart core reminder of that. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
I remember the day when I first realised that I could create my own email address that wasn't my school email address. Even that "new" Internet was a wonder.
Connecting with people that I don't speak to for the rest of the year on the P4A chat is the highlight of the weekend for me. Is the P4A recap video coming on Friday?
For me in the somewhat early days of the internet, it was cartoon network's games that i went to. Also email, and the only way i was able to keep in touch with my first best friend after he moved away. Eventually we lost touch/emails of each other, but I still remember him well. Miss you lucas, wherever you may be now.
I'm a millennial. I legit have no idea what you're talking about.
But that sounds so awesome!
At some point the internet also made weird noises
Oh John you are such a lovely man (I wish I could give you a hug)
Being a child born in the 21st century, I think we all have had that one summer of just being on the internet at a young age and not remembering a single outdoors thing. That happened for me after 2nd grade when I discovered what DVDs were and how to play them without my parents. I ended up staying in an empty refrigerator box with the small portable TV at the open end watching Spy Kids over and over again all summer long. That was a great summer.
This year's P4A has been amazing. Thank you to everybody who participated, you helped make one of the best experiences of my life! I'm do glad there's a place on the Internet where we can focus on doing good instead of participating in the seemingly omnipresent negativity.
DFTBA!
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