Christian Schneider's 1916: The Blog wonders: What if people 100 years ago had social media?
The College Fix senior reporter Christian Schneider recently added book author to his list of accomplishments. Here, he talks with Sarah Schutte about his book, 1916: The Blog, on topics ranging from character details to fascinating historical facts.
Sarah Schutte: If you had only one sentence in which to describe your book and its story, what would you say?
Christian Schneider: This is the elevator pitch. It's basically “What if the Internet existed a century ago?” That's how I pitched it on my website. If you spend a lot of time on the Internet, as I do, and you see how people see each other and treat each other, I started thinking, “Gosh, is this a modern convention, or would people have been this way if they had the Internet 100 years ago?” I started reading a newspaper from every day of the year in 1916 just trying to get examples for if somebody had a blog or Twitter feed, what would they be talking about 100 years ago?
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