Kids today have no idea what they’ve missed
Scrolling and swiping lethargic through colorful worlds from dopamine rush to dopamine rush
When we turned on our C64s, Amigas & later PCs back then, it wasn’t colorful
It was black and white mostly, but there was something to discover
Behind that blinking cursor was a world waiting to be explored
I can’t describe the excitement I felt as a teenager
Seeing those cracktros, ASCII art, music and colorful Graffiti like logos
Seeing those nicks and pseudos made me even more excited and curious
What’s this all about?
How’s that done?
Who’s behind that nick?
All those groups and names
Fairlight – as in the shot below
Man, a whole universe ready to be discovered, I need to figure that out, all of it
There was no search engine to ask
There wasn’t a tutorial explaining everything
You had to figure out everything on your own, piece by piece
And that was the thrill of it
Figuring out who’s who, the rules of the scene, the tech, the programming
Piece by piece, day by day, there was excitement but no rush
Sometimes there was a .txt explaining something
That was the only source, that was pure gold, you valued that
The numbers to call for a BBS like Sanctuary
They weren’t advertised in the newspaper, they had to be given to you
Eventually you became a member, but definitely no lamers allowed
Art, music, tools, an ecosystem – a whole world, created by teenagers
In the 90s
Can you get the same excitement to your life today?
Yes
Most of us aren’t teenagers anymore
But if we put the phone down, if we stop consuming the obvious all day long, we might find that same curiosity we once had again
That curiosity and excitement that made life spicy
There are still worlds to be discovered behind your screen
And if you’ve seen a lot already, you can help creating worlds that spark the same excitement again
But the same as we in the 90s, you’ll have to leave the well-trodden paths and go into the unknown
And creating something in the unknown is as exciting as discovering the unknown
What’s this? What to create?
You have to figure out
If I would tell you, there would be no excitement
Hi, I have a “slightly stupid” question
But how will blackhat SEO survive AI advancements?
In the short term, like 5-7 years, it’s possible, but beyond that?
Blackhat SEO is about exploiting loopholes in algorithms and doing things that scale. AI will help you greatly with the latter and will help preventing the first only little.
But Blackhat SEO tactics are nothing you plan for 5-7 years and beyond. Some things you figure out work for a couple of months and never work again after that. So it’s impossible to plan a business based on that.
If there’s a system, there’s always a way to exploit the system, no matter how advanced and secure people think it is. That’s the mindset you need for this. It’s definitely not for everyone.