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Cliff Stoll (kooky scientist, Cold War era hacker, klein bottles) published a 1995 essay and then a book claiming the web was overhyped and apparently it became known for being so wrong. But overall I think he really nailed it!!!!!
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went to a public lecture on transatlantic submarine cables where the entire audience was men of retirement age and i got to hold a segment of the original!!!
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"why use google?" webpage from 1999
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i'm obsessed with taylor swift's 2007 myspace bio
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it rocks that in every era of recorded history teenage boys have been creating public chaos as entertainment
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just fell into a rabbit hole of linguistics research where they write quiz questions with african american grammar/syntax and it's kind of fun to see which ones stump "standard english" speakers
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love the amazon reviews for this brand of potato chips that used to only be sold in prison
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"openai.com" was once the personal homepage of a guy named glenn (2001), and "tiktok.com" was the quaint shared homepage of a couple as their relationship progressed from dating to married with a baby (2000). THREAD!!!
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love these getty images pics of justin bieber and eric carle goofing around on top of the empire state building in 2009
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i found this book on
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called "motto book" and it's so funny i can't believe it was published in 1909
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obsessed with the quirky in-person events tech companies used to have (netscape navigator jazz festival, yahoo nationwide yodel challenge, etc)
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i'm poking around the y2k era ebay website in the wayback machine and it rocks so much. i love the pre 9/11 plane ticket listings
3 months ago
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official testimonial page on the hotmail website (1997)
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just learned pertussis vaccine was invented in the 50s by female scientists in grand rapids michigan where I’m from and i got really into this historian’s articles about it! anyway for some reason I called the number on her academic page and to my surprise SHE PICKED UP FIRST RING AND CHATTED!
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here's a very wholesome tamagotchi memorial site from 1997 (google translated from japanese)
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look at this scarf my mom made me for my birthday!
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not even a giant hot dog can escape the long arm of the law
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need more articles like this so I can keep alternating between actual news stories and preposterous headlines of decades past!!! please help
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finally some important news
over 1 year ago
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this design goes so hard
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