The Internet’s Collapse into Now
I. The Timeless InternetTime online feels strange, as though it doesn’t move forward or backward but folds into itself. The past, present, and future exist simultaneously, layered and recursive. Platforms no longer rely on the simplicity of chronology. Instead, they serve us endless, personalized loops—feeds that know us better than we know ourselves. Once, timestamps ruled the internet. Chronology was a byproduct of analog thinking, a holdover from when we sorted by the easiest metric availa...
