How the Modem World Shaped the Internet w/ Kevin Driscoll
08 18 22
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How the Modem World Shaped the Internet
Kevin Driscoll
Notes
Paris Marx is joined by Kevin Driscoll to discuss the networks and services built by volunteers and hobbyists on top of the telephone network before the internet took over the in the 1990s, and what it can teach us about the internet and social media today.
Guest
Kevin Driscoll is the author of The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media and an associate professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. Follow Kevin on Twitter at @kevindriscoll.
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Links
- Kevin wrote about The Modem World in Wired.
- textfiles.com is a good source for historical documents about the modem world.
- Find out more about Paris’ event with Sabrina Fernandes in Berlin on August 26!