Clifford Stoll's 1995 newsmagazine critique of the emergent Internet is a digital classic, an off-target artifact that is constantly being rediscovered, and scoffed at, online.
Few essays published in 1995 have been as perversely popular. Or commented on. A year ago, for example, Newsweek, which originally published the commentary, took a red pen to Stoll's essay in a whimsical if belated edit.
The critique appeared 23 years ago this week beneath the headline, “The Internet? Bah!”
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