"Not too long ago, the internet was a place you visited. The family desktop sat in its designated closet or back office. In schools, there were rooms filled with computers blinking in tandem, waiting for your class to arrive and hop online. You had to purposefully arrive at the internet, and when done, you left it behind until next time. Now the internet pervades our everyday lives. We have eliminated the doorway, the conscientious effort, needed to access the internet. Always on, always watching, the internet is no longer a place to arrive at and explore but instead a panopticon-like environment that we are trapped within."

"There was no algorithm, no feed. Instead, on popular web hosting sites like GeoCities, there were 「neighborhoods,」 wherein the platform and the personal websites it hosted were divided into virtual groups like 「Hollywood」 for pop culture sites or 「Area51」 for alien and science fiction pages, allowing users to find websites other users had created based on their interests. There was a sense of locality because of this. Even the language of the old web—homepage, computer room, web site—connotes a deep sense of location and place. Once done in the neighborhoods, and done online, disconnection was natural, inevitable, and even restful."

"Chet Kittleson, Tin Can's CEO, says the response from parents and kids has been 「incredible」"