Grow up.

Is that young Bob Dylan?

Bronx Tale, great movie, but no idea who the kid is. Not sure if it's the same kid as your posted video.

Couldn't watch more than 30 seconds straight, ended up skipping pretty much to the end.

Strange memories on this nervous night on the forums. 15 years later? 20? It feels like a lifetime, or a main era; the kind of peak that never comes again. The internet in the early 90s was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it MEANT SOMETHING. Maybe not, in the long run. But no explination, no mix of words or ani-GIFs or memories can touch that sense of knowing you were there and alive in that corner of time. Whatever it meant.

Browser History is hard to know, because of all the plugin & cookies bullshit, but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the processing power of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash for reason that nobody really understands at the time; and which never explain, in retrospect, just WFT happened.

My main memory of that time seems to hang on 1 or 5 or maybe 20 websites, or BBS boards, when I left AOL Chat amped up on mt. dew and instead of logging off and going to bed, I aimed netscape navigator at Yahoo! at 28.8 bds wearing jincos and a Billabong tee. Nirvana blasting out of the tinny speakers from the CD-ROM drive, not quite sure what neighborhood of GeoCities to check out, but being absoultly sure that no matter where I browsed I would come to a site where people were just as "cyber" as I was; no doubt at all about that!

There was madness in every chat room, at any hour. If not on AOL, then on usenet, or Prodigy or Compuserve. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was RIGHT, that this was the future!

And that, I believe, was the handle; that sense of inevitable victory over the Forces of Old and Evil corporations. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting- on either side. We had all the momentum. We were surfing the web on a high and beautiful wave.

And now, more than 25 years later, you can go to the front page of Reddit, or the forums at SomethingAwful. And, with the right kind of eyes you can almost see that high water mark. That place where the wave finally broke and the tolls rolled in with the chan couture; doing it all for the lulz.