The Guy Behind the Most Nostalgic Sites on the Internet | WIRED
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From Bop Spotter to his collection of long-lost and rarely-seen YouTube videos, Riley Walz makes the future of the internet look like its past.
Nov 29, 2024 7:00 AM From Bop Spotter to his collection of long-lost and rarely-seen YouTube videos, Riley Walz makes the future of the internet look like its past. Photo-Illustration: Darrell Jackson/Getty Images Riley Walz misses the old internet—even though most of Web 2.0’s golden years happened when he was still quite young. When he was still in high school, he was behind a gambit to get a fake congressperson verified on Twitter. It was covered by CNN. Earlier this fall, he gained internet infamy as the creator of Bop Spotter, a website connected to a phone in San Francisco’s Mission…
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