I Wish I Asked More Questions About Technology
I got to experience the internet in its golden age when I was very young. Too young to be interacting on forum pages or making blog posts, but old enough to witness a space where people created amazing things just for the sake of sharing their creativity. I remember seeing the first viral Youtube videos, playing in online spaces like Club Penguin and Webkinz, and hopping between a handful of Flash game websites.
If I have any regrets about this time in my life, it's that I didn't ask a lot of questions about what I was doing. I never paused for a second and wondered how any of this stuff worked:
- How does one even begin to make a website?
- How do computers work?
- How do they fit entire games into small cartridges?
- How is this person on Youtube playing Pokemon on his computer? (I think I assumed they had their Game Boy Advance connected to their PC or something)
At that point in my life, I was okay with just accepting technology at face value and not wondering how it came to be. Or more importantly, wondering if I could contribute. If it was possible for me to design a website or create a game. I was contempt with what I was given, and I regret not asking more questions.