Some French motherfucker in 1998-2006 catalogued and converted the whole corpus of The Cantigas de Santa Maria to MIDI. These songs are one of the only large collections we have of medieval European music pre-polyphony (i.e. there are no harmonies beyond a drone) and now they’re available for anyone’s silly computer to render in basic waveforms across the world.
You can literally take this shit and render it in the Fire Emblem 8 or Pokemon or whatever soundfont and it rules.
I grew up in a small town. For many years, the internet was the only place I could be openly bisexual and an atheist. It’s also how I learned a lot about game design and programming, how I got access to a large variety of Marxist works, how I got into contact and empathized with groups like Muslims and trans people I’d been raised to hate, and how I was able to understand my own autism by coming into contact with other autistic people who were given the chance to speak about their own experiences.
Without the internet, I probably would have been creatively stunted, unable to accept multiple aspects of myself, been appallingly bigoted in many ways, and still thought that capitalism is when freedom and communism is 1984 starvation gulags. I have never heard a good explanation from anyone as to why that would be the better version of myself.
Honestly, same. we are both autism creatures cut from the same cloth.