The Way Out of Internet Dysphoria

Is to indulge the senses

Roof trusses made from softwood. (Wikipedia)

Since the late 1970s, when I first enlisted in the internet quagmire—a child soldier, stop me if you've heard this before—the internet has been considered a dangerous place.

Denizens of the “the Con,” the awesome nickname for Conference XYZ, the Dartmouth chatroom I liked, used to style it as a great and risky…