Thu. 02/18 - Improving Twitter with an 1800s Etiquette Handbook
Feb 18, 2021•16 min
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Episode description
The Los Angeles musician who helped design the microphones on the Perseverance rover that will hopefully give us our first-ever audio recordings of Mars. Can a 19th century etiquette book make Twitter bearable? And what some of the top websites looked like on this day in 2011.
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Links:
- The LA Musician Who Designed a Microphone for Mars (Wired)
- Everyone on Twitter Needs an Etiquette Manual (Wired)
- Ten Years Ago (Neal.fun)
- r/Stuck10YearsBehind (Reddit)
- Kottke.Org
- Jackson Bird on Twitter
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