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Lori Emerson writes loriemerson, a personal blog at loriemerson.net about history, culture and systems. Since 2015, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-12, and you can follow it by feed.

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An English literature professor for the first 14 years of my career, I am now Professor and Associate Chair of Graduate Studies in the Media Studies Department at the University of Colorado Boulder. I am also Founding Director of the Media Archaeology Lab and co-founder of the Intermedia Arts, Writi

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  1. A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-31

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  1. Submitted A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks as a story · 130 points

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  2. Submitted What’s Wrong with the Internet and How We Can Fix It: John Day Interview as a story · 14 points

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  3. Submitted A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks as a story · 2 points

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  4. Submitted From the Philosophy of the Open to the Ideology of the User-Friendly as a story · 2 points

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  5. Submitted The Net Has Never Been Neutral (2021) as a story · 1 points

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  6. Submitted What’s Wrong with the Internet: Interview with Internet Pioneer John Day (2015) as a story · 1 points

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  7. Submitted Selling the Future at the MIT Media Lab as a story · 1 points

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