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Preparing for the Incoming Computer Shopper Tsunami

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Why did Usenet fail?

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More than half of YC startups don't have a dot com

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The Unintended Consequences of China Leapfrogging to Mobile Internet

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I don't like computers (2016)

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In defence of the boring web

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I Miss the Old Internet (2019)

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Things I Learnt in 2020

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Rediscovering the beauty of text on the internet

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A Text Renaissance

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Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces

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The ghosts of technology in today’s language (2018)

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Computer Files Are Going Extinct

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Graying Out

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Hyperliterature

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The Bullshit Web

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I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of the Links Worked

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Stopping the Internet of Noise – A useful internet back again

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I don’t like computers

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The New Web Typography

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Fuck the Cloud (2009)

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The billionaire’s typewriter

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Why I do not want to work at Google (2011)

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The Slow Web

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The Slow Web Movement

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Don't fall in love with your technology

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The "Cheap" Web

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Don't Say Velcro (2017)

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Ambient Co-Presence

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Thinking Forth: A Language and Philosophy for Solving Problems (2004) [pdf]

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The art and history of lettering comics

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