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Clickbait

Clickbait isn’t lazy writing — it’s fraud dressed as curiosity.
10:00

Internet Hall of Fame

A self-awarded canon, built by the Internet Society to name its own ancestors — then quietly drop the categories that made those ancestors legible.
10:26

Lipstick effect

A myth dressed as economics: lipstick sales don’t rise in recessions — they fall, or track celebrity trends.
9:16

Usenet

Usenet was never for the public — it was for the people who kept the machines running.