[wrfrmers]

In 2016, I wrote a short essay about my epiphany, as a Millennial, concerning the attitudes towards technology of people living in the 80s - the sense of suspicion and paranoia, living under the glow of green CRTs and the threat of nuclear annihilation - and how it was likely that our relationship to that technology had transitioned to one that was more trusting not because we'd become acclimated to its alien character, but because that tech had morphed to become more (superficially) friendly.

I went to revisit it a few months later, and found that an OpenOffice/LibreOffice bug had blanked the entire document.

(The essay was inspired by watching an Otaking animation of two anime characters dancing in an arcade to the RoboCop 3 main theme, on repeat. (Said animation has also been erased from existence.) Sent me down an empathetic rabbit hole of trying to understand what it felt like to live during that period.)