This evening as I’m browsing Lemmy, I’m getting nostalgic for the other, past experiences of something new and rough around the edges. I open a tab to We Distribute, and find an article on Radio Free Fedi.

I read it and click the link to Radio-browser.info. I click around exploring some music. Notice there is a Home-Assistant integration. Then I fire up my instance of Home-Assistant to install it. LOL, I already have it installed. I click around exploring radio stations. I’m reminded of the early internet days of icecast streams playing in Winamp. New, exciting, rough around the edges. I pull at threads of memory.

I browse to SomaFM and fire up Groove Salad in WinAmp. I listen, I chill, I pull at threads farther back. I pick up my Kindle and open up the book, Neuromancer. Reading, grooving, chilling. I’m remembering a past that didn’t quite exist, reading about an imagined 80s future that never quite came to be. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.