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History of the beginnings of the public internet

Old CD-ROMs, code fragments, and a faint waveform—symbols of a hacker’s thirty-year fight against entropy and the digital quest for persistence.

Fight Entropy: From Group42 to Mycal Music

Bold white title 'Cronosonics: When Essays Sing' centered on a dark blue background, with elegant teal soundwaves weaving through lines of text, merging words and music.

Cronosonics: When Essays Sing

A beige 1990s CRT monitor displaying the Mosaic web browser with terminal commands for SLIP tunneling below the page.

Surfing the Web in 1993: How I Ran Mosaic Over Dial-Up with a CRL.net Shell Account

AOL floppy disk labeled Eternal September with text: When AOL changed the internet forever in 1993

The September That Never Ended: How AOL Changed the Internet Forever in 1993