Little did we know, we were in the final days of Life Before the Internet, when imaginations still roamed freely in backyards across America and Giga Pets were the only tiny mobile machines kids had developed compulsive, codependent relationships with. These were simpler times, when dopamine levels spiked at the sound of the ice cream man, Nintendo Super Mario Bros., and cassette tapes with parental advisory labels. In not much more than a decade’s time, MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter would come along and change all of that forever. But we were just eight years old then, and focused on one
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