{"id":24041,"date":"2026-10-01T09:54:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=24041"},"modified":"2026-10-01T09:54:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:54:54","slug":"chat-gbt-build-me-a-time-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2026\/10\/01\/chat-gbt-build-me-a-time-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Chat gbt, build me a time machine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Sometimes I wish I had been born in the 60s.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not because I want to do my homework on a typewriter..(actually that\u2019d be cool..) or wait three days for someone to call me back. I just want to know what it felt like to be young when everything seemed like it was so cool<\/span><\/p>\n

I want to wear ridiculous clothes and have flowers in my hair. I want to sit on the hood of an old car with the radio playing while the sun goes down. I want to go to a record store and actually have to look through records instead of typing three words into a search bar. I want photographs that aren\u2019t taken ten times because everyone is trying to get the perfect one.<\/span><\/p>\n

the 60s that feels almost unreal from here.<\/span><\/p>\n

The music, the colors, the posters, the cars, and the peace signs..<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, that\u2019s the version that looks good from 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n

The other version wasn\u2019t as pretty.<\/span><\/p>\n

There were major civil rights struggles, intense political conflict, war, protests, discrimination, and a lot of people who didn\u2019t have the freedoms we casually expect now. Being a teenager in the 60s wouldn\u2019t have meant living inside a vintage movie. Some of the things I love about the decade existed alongside some very ugly realities.<\/span><\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s the inconvenient fact that I would have to live without the internet. <\/span>No Spotify. No Google. No texting. No more immediately finding out what happens at the end of a movie before you even finish it..that might take me out.<\/span><\/p>\n

Still, I wish I could visit it. N<\/span>ot permanently. Just for a little while. <\/span>I\u2019d want to walk down a street in 1967(omg I said the thing)\u00a0 and see what everyone was wearing. I\u2019d want to hear music coming through an open window. I\u2019d want to sit somewhere crowded and watch people who had no idea that, decades later, someone my age would look back at their ordinary lives and think they looked magical.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m missing a version of the 60s that exists in my head. That version has really good music.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sometimes I wish I had been born in the 60s. Not because I want to do my homework on a typewriter..(actually that\u2019d be cool..) or wait three days for someone to call me back. I just want to know what it felt like to be young when everything seemed like it was so cool I … Continue reading “Chat gbt, build me a time machine”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24043,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24041\/revisions\/24043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}