a stencil photographed by flickr gal ssimm1rg
With the deluge of new sites and tools and applications and gagets heaped upon us daily, it’s enough to make me want to say “enough already,” or as they’d say in Spanish, Ya Basta!
And you know what? If it weren’t for the internet being so darned hot, we might not be here, able to use ‘ya Basta!’ in a sentence.
Back in the era of web 1.0, in the winter of 1993, hotmail was the thing revolutionizing communications — really. Everyone was signing up for accounts, and a good user name was hard to come by. I was traveling in southern Mexico, and met a woman who, fed up with trying every variation of her plain Jane name coming up with a big red “unavailable” (while in an internet cafe, paying by the minute,) she typed in Ya_Basta and voila! presto! ya_basta she was.
It’s amazing, the degree to which new usage of the internet is pushing us to reach into other languages to name our experiences, our efforts, our tools.
I’d be really curious what you’d have to say on this, and/or if you’ve heard anyone else thinking/talking about the same thing…
