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Which brings us to "How to Log On the Internet," Tony Horkins' internet primer for people living in a time before the internet was really ready to be primed. Sometimes it is nice to look back at things before they started, and see how we used to talk about the internet before we truly understood it, like cavemen describing a yellow sun. "How to Log On the Internet"? You log onto the internet, dude! Or, rather, we don't even log on any more: we are just constantly on, and the off switch only gets noticed when Time Warner throttles our connection for no reason or someone trips over a router cable. The article is littered with oblique references to "the Net" and the "World Wide Web": reading this back now is like watching a granddad trying to buy smack off someone under a grim archway. "So you inject it into your body, do you?" Granddad is saying—he's given up now, he knows his life is over, he's doing smack when there's nothing left to lose—"which hole?"Anyway, back to 1995, and what kind of person you have to be to use the internet. Not, apparently, a nerd. You do not technically have to be a nerd.Trending on NOISEY: An Expert's Guide to Getting Shitfaced in Manchester
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