It took nearly five years into the internet’s life before anyone made a concerted effort to archive it. Much of our earliest online activity has disappeared.
From BBC – Future – Why there’s so little left of the early internet
April 2019
In Praise of Public Libraries
…from the New York Review of Books, an opinion piece by Sue Halpern..
A public library is predicated on an ethos of sharing and egalitarianism. It is nonjudgmental. It stands in stark opposition to the materialism and individualism that otherwise define our culture. It is defiantly, proudly, communal. Even our little book-lined room, with its mismatched furniture and worn carpet, was, as the sociologist Eric Klinenberg reminds us libraries were once called, a palace for the people.
Read it here: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/04/18/in-praise-of-public-libraries/
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