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They were born in 1999, so it's more like what a new generation's impression of what the old web was like.

You don't really have to know what specific year they were born in, the refusal to capitalize is a dead giveaway they did not experience that time at all. Anybody of that time period would be embarrassed to do so on a public site.

Kind of funny how we carry these different meanings to mostly meaningless things.

I had an all-lowercase website for a couple years on the early web. So did many of my friends. Archive.org snapshots are 2000-2001, but they'd been around before that in many iterations.

Gah.. it's all embarrassing to look back on for other reasons...

Don't be shy, bring it back, you're ahead of the curve!

Making advisories hard to read has been a thing since forever. Remember Gobbles?

https://github.com/thinkitdata/GOBBLES/blob/master/advisorie...

Very true, trends after all come and go.

Specifically about this style though, I feel it fits right into the blog series about "domestic cozy"[1]. It aims to be exactly that, imply super casual/low effort tone, make it feel a bit more personal, and simultaneously about ignoring social traditions that feel redundant to them. Like all trends, it takes effort to follow, and part of this is encouraging friends to turn off auto-capitalization on your phone.

So I would say it's a bit more than just trying to make something hard to read, and focusing on that bit might make you miss the rest of their storytelling process!

[1] https://www.ribbonfarm.com/series/domestic-cozy/

Was the author the girl that owned the TSA in the past year?

Iirc it wasn't the TSA directly but an airline and their copy of the nofly list.

FYI, the author uses it/she pronouns.

So it uses it/she pronouns? Usually the object pronoun is second; does that mean that it wants people to call she "it" unless they're doing something to she? That's off the chain, and sounds like meta-trolling.

There are two forms of pronouns. The correct form is multiple pronouns, “he/them” or “it/she”. They are alternatives, both can be used. I think the first is preferred.

The second form is different cases, “he/him”. I have theory that people started using that because they didn’t want to put just “he”. They were following the multiple case form and it stuck. People aren’t really specifying cases because nobody uses different cases and nobody puts cases in the multiple pronouns form.

It's legendary.

Live journal-esque.

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