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by Felipe De La Hoz Welcome to The Lost Internet, a month-long series in which the members of Flaming Hydra revisit internet marvels of the past.  At 29, I’m too young to really have lived the fabled bedlam of the early internet, but old enough to remember an internet

Welcome to The Lost Internet, a month-long series in which the members of Flaming Hydra revisit internet marvels of the past. At 29, I’m too young to really have lived the fabled bedlam of the early internet, but old enough to remember an internet before it had been taken over by aging tech bros who could crush communities and destroy rival websites, publications, and companies at the snap of a finger. I trawled Omegle and laughed at adult strangers trying to prey on me, half-erect by the blue glow of a dim screen in a dimmer room. I collected photos of teenage parties lit unflatteringly…

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