Internet Happy Places
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Internet Happy Places
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These days, whenever someone asks me for TV binging recommendations, my answer is met with confusion, surprise, amusement, and intrigue. I sheepishly admit that I’ve been watching old professional wrestling shows on the WWE Network. I grew up watching pro wrestling with my older brother, who passed away in late 2019, and I’ve been returning to the pastime as a way of reconnecting with him.
The network is easily the world’s largest repository of professional wrestling, with an archive spanning several decades and nearly all of the once-active wrestling territories. It also has a streaming function, so you can just…
INTERNET HAPPY PLACES
In early 2020 — as Covid-19 surged and the world suffered through months of shutdowns — my wife, our two sons, and I decided to get chickens. Driving to a farm in the Bay Area, we brought home Anna and Elsa. The pair started as tiny, fluffy chicks and rapidly grew into two massive, friendly, egg-laying birds.
At the time, buying chickens felt like a brilliantly creative, original way to cope with the pandemic. Later, I’d learn that we were part of a worldwide trend — chicken sales have reportedly surged 500% during Covid-19, and breeders are having a tough…
Internet Happy Places
At the end of a year in which we could not explore much IRL, team OneZero is sharing our favorite places we found online.
I am old enough to remember March, when we relished those first Zoom calls with our far-flung friends and family members, many of whom we had not spoken with for way too long, all of us hunkered down in different parts of the world, and the chats were filled with foreboding but also a certain giddiness. “This was good, in a way. We should be doing this more often, pandemic or no,” we thought, before realizing…
Internet Happy Places
At the end of a year in which we could not explore much IRL, team OneZero is sharing our favorite places we found online.
Near the beginning of quarantine, a buddy and I were trying to find simple, mindless online games that we could easily play while cooped up in our respective apartments. At some point, my friend just Googled “best free first-person shooter game online” and came across Krunker.io, a CS:GO-esque first-person shooter game with a vaguely Minecraft-y aesthetic.
Krunker (I still do not know why it’s called “Krunker”) is fun. It has a bunch of unique classes, interesting…
Internet Happy Places
At the end of a year in which we could not explore much IRL, team OneZero is sharing our favorite places we found online.
It is generally frowned upon for a wife and a mother of three human children to say that, most days, her favorite thing in the world is her dog. And yet, my dog is pretty amazing. But I also love other people’s dogs, and this year I really didn’t get to pet enough of them. Naturally, my favorite place on the internet was anywhere where the dogs are.
In 2019, only one person on my team…
Internet Happy Places
At the end of a year in which we could not explore much IRL, team OneZero is sharing our favorite places we found online.
Most days, after being held captive by a tiny screen for 12 hours, I avoid the internet like it’s a loud talker who refuses to wear a mask. (I guess that makes me a bad employee of a publication dedicated to internet things. Sorry, Damon!) The only exception I’m happy to make is for a site called 5eTools, which is a crucial resource for my Dungeons and Dragons crew now that we have to play online…
Internet Happy Places
At the end of a year in which we could not explore much IRL, team OneZero is sharing our favorite places we found online.
The first thing I love about TikTok is that nobody I know is on TikTok. Because while it is fine and even addicting to watch old acquaintances curate their personas on other apps, it’s not very interesting. Yes, these posts probably also live on TikTok, but I don’t see them.
Which brings me to the second thing I love about Tiktok: Your content finds you. Tiktok has, for instance, figured out that I am most tolerant…
Internet Happy Places
At the end of a year in which we could not explore much IRL, team OneZero is sharing our favorite places we found online.
A Redditor posts an image of what appear to be grains of rice, small and yellowing and strewn across a plain white bedspread. “These things keep popping up on my bed every day,” they remark. “I wake up every morning or come home at night after work with these little grain like things in my bed. I wipe them off and more show up the next day. My kitten sleeps with me,” they add.
Within hours…
Internet Happy Places
At the end of a year in which we could not explore much IRL, team OneZero is sharing our favorite places we found online.
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