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Stephen Downes

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Hopefully this will be your 'one free article' of the month from Wired. Normally I wouldn't touch it, but it's supposedly an oral history of the original Wired website called HotWired. Accept the cookies, then minimize the great big subscription ad.  This matters to me not because of the content (which was and is the focus of these writers) but because of the HotWired Threads discussion area, where I was a regular (presciently, I knew they would eventually kill Threads, so my posts there became the beginning of my Articles section on my website). Part way through they take credit for having the first banner ad, but I'm here to say they weren't first - the actual first banner ad appeared on a specialty website called The Spot (yes, I was a Spotfan too). Via Kottke.

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