An Emotional History of the Internet

Reconstructing a digital landscape, 2014 to present.

There is a lot of cultural, social, and emotional history on the internet that’s just lost.

To the credit of internet culture reporters, there’s just no easy way to document this stuff—how do you describe the emotional or social texture of something as ephemeral and diverse as the internet?

And maybe more practically, how do you decide what to capture?

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