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[tephra]

DeviantArt just amazes me. I put up the last penciled version of Elidi (as a finished image, I really like my pencil work this time) and in under two minutes someone added it to their favorites.

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[jirris-midvale.livejournal.com]

Sometimes the scope of the internet, one of mankind's most far-reaching and most often taken for granted inventions, blows my mind. When I think that at the begining of my short life personal computers were rare and the internet was something raw and only seen by government and geeky college boys it reminds me how *fast* this technology has evolved. Now almost everyone I know lives in a house with a desktop compuer, if not their own personal computer. This is mind-numbing.

In less than 20 years we've gone from a time that the only reliable and quick way to reach someone you know was with an expensive long distance phone call to now. Now I can get on the internet and pull music from another one thousands of miles away a little faster than I can listen to it. I can find people who share my interests with a few words and some time searching. I can talk with as many people as I can keep up with as long as I don't mind using text. I can leave electronic post-its much like this one all over the internet.

Geeks worked damn hard to bring me a world of the future that very few people expecteded. It isn't a nuclear death ray or flying cars or robots, but it's still pretty damn cool.

There are drawbacks like pop-ups and spyware and groups of people trying to be the 'cool' dorks every now and then, but still -- holy shit.

Deviant art is merely a small facet of this amazing technologly. The fact that someone somewhere in the world could reach out and let you know that they thought the pic was groovy just makes me have goosebumps when I think about what that entailed. It's wild.