Meditations in an Emergency

Meditations in an Emergency

The internet

Brief attempts at what is web

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Rosecrans Baldwin
Jan 07, 2023
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“Network of Stoppages” (1914), Marcel Duchamp

What is internet?

When I was a kid, the late ‘80s, “internet” was me running a telephone cord from my parents’ bedroom to a study where we kept the family PC, so I could ask its 2400-baud modem to call an electronic billboard (BBS) in a town next door, such that, after five or ten minutes of connecting – beee …

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