The Most Hilarious Oral History Of All Time
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| Gawker found this 6/4/2008 on www.radaronline.com [flag] |
Since no one will actually read the enormous Vanity Fair oral history of the Internet, because everyone's attention span has been destroyed by the Internet, perhaps no one has noticed that it is the most hilarious thing ever published—sometimes
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Jann Wenner Invented the Hyperlink, the Remix [Series Of Tubes]
Published 6/4/2008 by Pareene at Gawker
Oh god, Choire actually read the Vanity Fair "oral history of the internet." Why? Why did Vanity Fair take it upon themselves to do this? Mostly so that they could interview self-aggrandizing fools, apparently. DID YOU KNOW that Jann Wenner saw the world's very first "hyper-link"? Seriously, this is what he claims!
Jann Wenner: Jim [Clark] and Marc [Andreessen] set up a demonstration. I'd never seen a hyperlink before. I don't think anybody had. And it was kind of drop-dead amazing. That you could click on this blue, highlighted, underlined word and then, bam, go to a whole new level of information was ...
