Things I Miss

I miss the old internet.
I miss away messages and buddy info,
The AIM stalking that was more labor intensive than any on facebook.
What was facebook, then?
I miss fonts.
I miss it when font style said so much about you.
Arial. Comic sans. Veranda. Tahoma.
how you stole fonts you liked, used fonts to make a statement.
No one used Papyrus, even then.

I miss message boards. How we would know
All of us
would know each other.
How your top posters were big names.
Now, message boards are run by the networks.
I can't find fan proboards, not like
there were. Not like we had,
all of us there.

You, on Tumblr
(What was Tumblr, then?)
will you ever know what it's like?
The OT threads, the episode recaps
and most of all

The Three Year Summer.

The Three Year Summer,
when CassieClare ruled
when Arabella and Zsenya rebelled
when the Shoebox Project collected dust under the bed
and we were all on the same page
(your choice about pun intended).

You, now. You'll never know
what it was like not to know
and not to have to worry about knowing.
We all wondered at the same time. Everyone did. We all did.

I miss the old internet,
where I played with out fear
- should have had fear -
played without fear.
An age gone by
of Buddyinfo and Chat Rooms
of dial up tones and America On Line...

SRY, POS.
BRB.