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'What Is This Thing Called the Web?'

January 22, 2011 by Patrick LaForge in New York, Blogging, Paper & Ink, Social Media

Fifteen years ago today, on Jan. 22, 1996, The New York Times -- which already had a news service behind a paywall on AOL -- started its free Web site, jolting newspaper publishers and editors across the land to follow suit. A happy birthday tweet prompted me to go on a memory-jogging journey with the Wayback Machine looking for another newspaper site born that month. Back then, I was working for The York Daily Record in southcentral Pennsylvania. The existential headline on this blog post is from an article I wrote for that paper in December 1995, part of a five-day series explaining the Internet. (I had been a computer dabbler since I was a teenager.) The article is reprinted below, with permission (My favorite line: "Some people believe the Web or some future souped-up version of it will transform society. Others think the accent in 'hypertext' should be on 'hype.'")

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January 22, 2011 /Patrick LaForge
Wayback Machine, YDR-com, news, York Pa-, York Daily Record, History, Web, floods, weather, newspapers, NYT, blizzards, NYTimes-com, Internet
New York, Blogging, Paper & Ink, Social Media
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Podcast Zeitgeist, Dec. 12

December 12, 2008 by Patrick LaForge in Podcast Zeitgeist

I'm mixing it up a little this week, adding some new podcasts from the iTunes Best of 2008 lists [iTunes Store Link], including a few with video under 10 minutes.

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December 12, 2008 /Patrick LaForge
"All My Internet Friends", Amanda French, Attack of the Show, brocabulary, Buzz Out Loud, CNET, grammar, Grammar Girl, iPhones, iTunes, Jonathan Coulton, Jonathan Larroquette, MacBreak Weekly, music, Podcast Zeitgeist, podcasts, Scientific American, Seth Romatelli, This Week in Tech, Twitter, Uhh Yeah Dude, York Pa-, You Look Nice Today
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