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News canisters

Once upon a time, news was delivered by ship. It was a piece of cargo like any other. It took up space. It weighed something. Cape Race was a landfall beacon for ships from Europe travelling to US and Canadian … Continue reading

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The amateur operators: notes on early adopters

The hobbyist culture around wireless telegraphy (1906-1912), at once intensely social — as it inherently involved communicating with others — and potentially isolating — as it required technical skills that could only be acquired outside of the flow of ordinary life — bears a striking resemblence to the tinkering subcultures that have attended the rise of home computing, network culture, and social media. Continue reading

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