The blogs you read in 2012 redirect to parked domains. The forums where you learned what you know got bought, gutted, redesigned, and left to rot.
Terry must be tons of fun at parties. Way to rope us in Terry.
He redeems himself by the end:
But the actual internet — the protocols, the federated services, the plain-text commands, the open feeds, the small servers, the personal sites, the things people built when user and developer were sometimes the same word — is still right there.
Build protocols not platforms.
Tangentially related: The blog isn’t dead. It is just sleeping. and Blogging is alive and well.