If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)
Yeah blogs are still here, BUT: (like email (<i>sob</i>) and telephone-calling (hooray)) a lot of people that once did blog don&#x27;t anymore.<p>Not in the &quot;I had kids so my blog went dark for a few years&quot; sense, but in the sense of &quot;ooh twitter was invented and now I just emit a halfassed one-sentence brainfart or 5-second tiktok cellphone video and get way more dopamine hits&quot;.<p>I&#x27;ve been reading blogs and perusing my self-curated NetNewsWire RSS feeds for 20+ years, and blogs never went away, RSS never died, Google Reader getting googled didn&#x27;t really matter, etc.<p>And there are probably technically <i>more</i> blogs now than ever before.<p>But still, the blog kinda died, in the sense that it would be a lot more surprising to learn your friend&#x27;s 80-year-old grandma has a blog today than it would have been in 2011.<p>It went from an increasingly-mainstream thing to a decreasingly-mainstream thing.