You had to be there
By Bobbie
Category: Lifestyle
Remember when Twitter felt like the wild west? This post remembers setting up the Guardian's first Twitter feeds in 2007, the early @guardiannews experiment and the sudden nostalgia when the paper left Twitter. Personal memories, Hossein Derakhshan's The Web We Have To Save, and why I quit the stream.
Rolly's Take
For the nostalgic soul who feels the pulse of the internet’s evolution, tracing back to a time when spontaneity reigned. They linger in the bittersweet corners of memory, where experiments birthed new ideas against a backdrop of chaos, and they yearn for the wildness that once stirred the digital landscape. This is a space for reflection on loss and the quiet hope that still flickers in the aftermath of the stream.