FYI with Chris Martin

FYI with Chris Martin

3 Appeals of the Early Internet

So much has changed, and yet so much hasn't.

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Chris Martin
Feb 22, 2021
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The internet has been social since the beginning—it was originally a government project intended to connect military computers and eventually research institutions so that they could communicate—but why did “normal people,” people who weren’t academics or techies, start engaging with the social internet? It wasn’t just because AOL sent millions of discs…

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