The Day the Internet Died

According to Wikipedia, the Internet died around 2016. Apparently, I wasn't invited to the funeral. I'm not upset, though. I never have any shoes for special occasions. The dead Internet theory is an online conspiracy theory that asserts that the Internet now consists mainly of bot activity and automatically generated content manipulated by algorithmic curation, …

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First Contact: Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Ahh, the 70s. Not so long ago that it feels completely ancient, but not so recent that most 20-year-olds can remember them. Three great things made their debut in 1977: Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and me! I was not a cute baby. Lately I've been …

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