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Microsoft Windows Hacking: consumer computers in the ’90s were a pain because they all ran Windows and if you ever connected them to the Internet, there were so many ways to get hacked or systems degraded. This is far less of an issue now.
My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s
gwern.net
Under the circumstances they were working in, Chen Ming maintained, a good journalist was not one who insisted on trying to provide the public with new information, but __one who consistently provided their newspaper with basically clear and reasonably readable news articles to publish.__
The Currency of Truth
Emily H. C. Chua
The coolhunters each had their own way of finding hits. Every morning, Harper scoured a list she’d assembled of blogs and internet arcana, searching for interesting videos. When she found ones worth putting on the homepage, she would add them to YouTube’s “Featured Videos” banner, which stacked small frames of videos in a column of 10. Her team swapped these slots every four hours, giving YouTubers behind the videos they selected a guaranteed cascade of views.
Just a Few People Crowned Some of YouTube’s Earliest Hits
Mark Bergen
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