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Eternal September: The Day the Internet Culture Died
Deep Dives May 14, 2026

Eternal September: The Day the Internet Culture Died

Ask a certain old-timer and they will tell you, straight-faced, that it has been September 1993 for over thirty years. The story of what happens to a community when it scales past the point its culture can survive.

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The World's First Webcam Watched a Coffee Pot
Deep Dives May 12, 2026

The World's First Webcam Watched a Coffee Pot

The first webcam was not pointed at a celebrity or a skyline. It watched a pot of coffee in a Cambridge corridor, so researchers would not trek over to find it empty. The gloriously lazy birth of the live internet.

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