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AI is making the internet feel new again, users say

Original: For the first time in years, the world feels new again. I grew up with computers, video games, and the early Internet. B

People online are comparing the current moment in artificial intelligence to the early days of the internet, saying that for the first time in years technology feels genuinely new. One widely shared reflection from someone who grew up with early computers and the web argues that AI now carries the same uncertainty and sense of possibility the internet once had.

Why now: A widely resonant personal reflection is striking a chord by framing the AI boom as a return to the excitement of the early internet era.

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• For the first time in years, the world feels new again. I grew up with computers, video games, and the early Internet. Back then, nobody really knew what the Internet would become. Everything felt new. Now AI gives me that feeling again. When the Internet began, I was a child.… · anglefeint · 3

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