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Privacy

A default that became a preference and then a product.

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Personal web page

The personal web page is the last unbranded, untracked, user-owned corner of the internet—and it works precisely because almost no one uses it anymore.
8:28

GeoCities

GeoCities didn’t build communities—it assigned ZIP codes to loneliness.
8:38

Pirate Party

It turned copyright outrage into a party—but never solved how to govern the internet.