It was like Gchat or iMessage, but you could only do it from a desktop computer. But when we invented it, we didn’t have text messages, we didn’t have Snapchat, we didn’t have group chats or Instagram DMs or school-provided Gmail accounts. That thing you know how to do, that cerebellum-wracking attentiveness to every character of the text message and what it might mean- we invented that. We were the first generation to spend two hours typing at our closest friends instead of finishing our homework, parsing and analyzing and worrying over “ u were so funny in class today” or “ nah lol youre pretty cool.” The words and the alert sounds swirl around you and you know how to read them and hear them because our culture-that we made-taught you how.
You walk around in habitats of text, pop-up cathedrals of social language whose cornerstone is the rectangle in your pocket.
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