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Tuesday 5 May 2015

Why Twitter? | Take This: A Skeptical Blog by TakeThat Accounts

The year: 1981. The place: UCLA’s secret underground laboratories. Professor Heinrich Rudolf von Internet has just put the finishing touches on his masterwork. “At last, I have done it,” he muses, basking in the glow of accomplishment. “I have created the Internet. Soon, perhaps within my lifetime, people around the world will be able to exchange rage comics, half-baked political views, cat photos with captions written on them in the Impact typeface, conspiracy theories, animated gifs of Gary Busey, and pornography. So very, very much pornography”...

Why Twitter? | Take This: A Skeptical Blog by TakeThat Accounts