The biggest danger online isn’t porn or scams or cyber-bullying. It’s the web’s power to seduce you into bottomless nostalgia. All the music and literature and pop culture that made an impression on you, ever, is available to you whenever. 

Want to relive the summer of your junior year? Coming right up. I just came across some mp3s of an Atlanta band called 86 that was a big favorite of my friends and mine in high school. I hadn’t heard it in more than 20 years, and I guess it sounds pretty 80s now. And it basically squares with my memory of myself as a pretty mopey kid. But I still like it. Now, if only I had some LSD. But no, I guess I do have work tomorrow…