The Internet Then vs. Now
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What was the internet like before social media?
My generation was really the last generation that we had no social media. I remember the Oregon Trail was like the shit. The dial-up sound. AOL chat rooms. Myspace. Chat roulette. It's a dangerous place. I look what? Well, I am. I am terrified of AI. The internet was already scary enough. She was like, ASMR. How the fuck do you know what ASMR is? No, I'm not AI. I'm not AI.
I can't skip. I'm trying to get out of here.
When Keeping Up premiered, did you gain more control over your image? I don't know what an image was. How do you balance posting for you versus posting for Chloe the brand? Am I supposed to think like this? I'm also never offended if someone unfollows me. How does one even know that?
I don't even know.
What the hell's mukbangs? Hi, you guys. Thank you for joining me on Chloe in Wonderland. I'm so happy to have you guys with me here. Today, I want to talk about digital life. And what I find so interesting and what I get asked a lot about is that my generation was really a... the last generation that, I don't want to say we still had real life because that's unfair to say, but we had no social media. We had no real internet. Dial-up started. I remember when dial-up started. I remember when we were given Facebook and MySpace and all of those other platforms, which were before Twitter and Instagram and TikTok and all those things. No one will ever know life without the internet now, which there's pros and cons to everything.
I think it makes me really sad for my kids just because I knew life before any of that. And I knew what it meant to be bored. I knew what it meant to have to go make friends with your neighbors. I knew what it meant to call someone's landline and have to speak to their parents and entertain their parents and have... the proper conversation, those things no one has to do anymore. So you almost don't know how to do that kind of stuff. Even making appointments or reservations, you can do all of that online. So those humanly tools... that we learned the older we got, kids don't really have to learn that stuff anymore. It's so strange. I also think that's why people fall in love with creations they've made on AI or robots.
Or I read all these crazy stories that I find outlandish, but I understand how people get there because we now live in a society that it's basically touchless. It can be human-less if you need it to be. Yeah. So basically that's what I want this episode to be about is talking about what I experienced, what I went through and where we are now. When I was growing up, I didn't have the internet. We didn't have specifically social media, but the internet, I remember having a game called the Oregon trail and the Oregon trail on a real computer was like the shit and playing that game. I, you It was just amazing. And that, I would think, is like my first memory of really the computer, which is crazy. Hearing the dial-up sound, oof, it's a little traumatizing, triggering at this point.
AOL chat rooms. a legendary place to be being able to talk to your friends through there and you just felt so cool and there was different chat rooms and for those that don't I don't know if chat rooms still exist but I know there used to be chat rooms like if you have a fetish there's a chat room for a fetish if you are just girls wanting to talk to other girls like as friends you can go that way Or like kids 18 and under, like just to talk. And at this point, I don't believe, and maybe this is me being naive, I don't believe it was like really a sketchy place to go. I felt like at least my experience, like chat rooms were more like silly and like, I can't believe I'm talking to... Sarah 3721, who lives in Ireland.
It was just an experience. Then I remember Facebook came around. I wasn't a big Facebook girl. I was definitely a MySpace girl. My top eight at the time, I mean, the cool thing is it rotated all the time, but definitely the twins, Malik and Khadija, I had a friend named Megan who was in the top. We had a bunch of girlfriends that were in there then. I'm sure my brother, I don't know if my sisters were, which is messed up, but I don't know.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What was the internet like before social media?
0:00–5:27
2
How did early social media platforms shape online interactions?
5:27–23:28
3
What role did Twitter play in shaping public perception?
23:28–34:33
4
How has cancel culture impacted social media dynamics?
34:33–36:02
5
Why is AI viewed as a threat in today's digital landscape?
36:02–37:45