The Very First Social Network || FUTURE TENSE

How a 1979 chain email about science fiction spawned the internet we know today.

By EMERSON T. BROOKING and P. W. SINGER

Doris Liou

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Very interesting piece from Slate about the origins of the Internet. It’s a book excerpt, but does a nice job standing alone.

If you are interested in history, this is a nice roll-up of what is obviously a much more complex and detailed origin story.