{"id":2167,"date":"2026-02-24T08:47:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T08:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/?p=2167"},"modified":"2026-02-24T16:28:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T16:28:40","slug":"yes-still-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/24\/yes-still-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, still alive&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Apologies for the radio silence. I\u2019ve been stepping back from the web and social platforms, which I&#8217;m completely I\u2019m fine with. A friend of mine, who\u2019s been online since the early days, and I were just talking about how hollow the modern internet feels. Anyone who grew up on GeoCities, MySpace, or endless mIRC nights can\u2019t help but notice how broken the \u201csocial internet\u201d has become&#8230; how soulless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Serendipity (or just the algorithm listening to my conversations), I came across with this video:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Web Revival: the Internet didn&#039;t die, you&#039;re just not on it\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tkUgOT22F5s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m glad there&#8217;s still hope and I&#8217;m glad I didn&#8217;t kill this blog in the multiple times I felt like it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eventually things come full circle, just brace for the impact&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies for the radio silence. I\u2019ve been stepping back from the web and social platforms, which I&#8217;m completely I\u2019m fine with. A friend of mine, who\u2019s been online since the early days, and I were just talking about how hollow the modern internet feels. Anyone who grew up on GeoCities, MySpace, or endless mIRC nights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,12,7,301],"tags":[271,498,57,499,497,496,377],"class_list":["post-2167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-rants","category-technology","category-world","tag-blogs","tag-geocities","tag-internet","tag-myspace","tag-old","tag-rants","tag-social-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2169,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions\/2169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}