Losing the Internet You Grew Up with懷念伴隨我們長大的互聯網

by Julie Beck

Cass 譯

Losing the Internet You Grew Up with懷念伴隨我們長大的互聯網

by Julie Beck

Cass 譯

QQ空間有個功能，點擊“那年今日，他們有精彩動態”，便可以看到好友去年今日的動態。互聯網給我們提供了一個窺知過去的窗口，許多人的生活因被記錄在互聯網上而得以保存。這對我們的記憶方式也產生了重大影響，想不起某個時刻做了什么，便習慣翻看動態或是朋友圈。但也有人說，互聯網一點都不給我們懷舊的機會，一次改版，那熟悉的界面便不復存在；忽然關閉，好友留言便消失不見；一次軟件重裝，歷史記錄便蕩然無存。下面就讓我們一起讀讀作者和互聯網與懷舊之間的微妙關系吧！

I n sixth or seventh grade, my best friend and I were obsessed with a1)fanfctioncalledThe Fellowship of the Banana Peel.It was pretty much what it sounds like—a reimagining ofThe Lord of the Ringsin which the One Ring is replaced by a banana peel.We printed it out and brought it to school in one of those pocketed paper folders, reading it to each other at lunch and between classes.An ongoing bit was that bananas made Elrond sick—“The smell2)permeateseverything,” I remember him saying sadly, repeatedly, throughout the time the Fellowship was at3)Rivendell.

It was so stupid.It made us so happy.I can’t fnd it anywhere.

The Internet is a great facilitator of4)nostalgia.It remembers the things you’ve forgotten, and with just a little prompting can usually hand you the thing your mind was5)fumblingfor—where do I know that actress from, or what’s that song that goes like “a chicka-cherry cola?”Instagram observes Throwback Thursday;6)Spotifysuggests songs that were popular when you were in high school; there’s a pair of websites whose entire reason for existence is to play a 24-hour stream of old7)Nickelodeonor8)Cartoon Networkshows from the 90s and 2000s.

在讀六年級還是七年級的時候，我和最好的朋友迷上了一篇名為《香蕉皮護衛隊》的同人小說。文如其名，這是一本以《指環王》為藍本的再創造小說，只是至尊魔戒被香蕉皮所替代了。我們將其打印出來，裝在口袋大小的袖珍文件夾里，帶到學校，在午餐時間和課間相互讀給對方聽。貫穿始終的一幕是香蕉使精靈領主埃爾隆德感到不舒服——“那個味道到處彌漫”，我記得護衛隊還在瑞文戴爾的時候，他愁眉苦臉地反復說道。

這本小說很白癡。但它曾讓我們快樂不已。現在卻找不到它了。

互聯網是懷舊情愫的偉大推動者。它記得所有你忘卻了的事情，僅僅需要一點點的提示，它就可以信手拈來你苦思而不得的東西——我是從哪里認識這個女演員的，或者那首“切克—櫻桃可樂”這樣唱的歌叫什么來著？Instagram有“回憶星期四”的話題；……