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Jonathan Cruz

until anonymous told me no no one will want me because I stink “you smell like a nasty chink”

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Tim Nolan

Everything changed Everyone was here. It was put into everyone’s hands at once. We started selling it like cheap condos Fences were built Homesteads were erected Vacant lots became signposts Signposts became stop signs

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Emily Kennedy

In the middle years of the early web, which coincided with the early years of my middle school career, I engaged in a series of aspirational purchases at a Nordstrom’s Rack in Sacramento.

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Ava Kofman

Eventually there was a limit to how much time I was allowed to spend on Neopets. So I waited until my mom went to the gym to hoard my money and tend to my starving animals—a something, a something, and a rare purple Shoyru I snagged at an auction. In the Neopets universe, painting a pet purple was a lavish, pricey affair.

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Matt Scheurich

Late night click frenzy: Hamilton, New Zealand; 1998; 15 years old; 2am. Having gone past my curfew time for sleep and internet usage, I crept back to bed hoping not to stir parents or sisters, still charged from my demon slaying.

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Joshua Caleb Weibley

Their solution was CleanWeb, a Christian internet filtering service that, as far as I can tell, has been defunct over a decade. When browsing toward objectionable content it would redirect users to another page prominently displaying the service’s logo: blue initials “CW” in jagged, mock-expressive letterforms probably better suited to Xtreme sports.

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Jennifer Schaffer-Goddard

We were basically always barefoot. On hot driveways the soles of our feet burned, turned the color of charcoal. I remember walking down the grassy hill to the common where all our backyards met. You’d go just to see if anyone was outside, playing. There was a wide, staticky trampoline. We did somersaults in the air like it was nothing. We’d lay down on our backs and have someone jump hard in the middle, sending the rest of us flying, howling.

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Nozlee Samadzadeh

It was from KatC’s tutorial “How to make cute Sailormoon backgrounds” that I first learned how to harness the power of transparency.

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Alex Molotkow

My mother used to huff a dress I’d worn once and say, disturbed, “It smells like you!” For years I couldn’t smell that smell, then I smelled it all the time, like growing into your signature.

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Lisa John Rogers

The preciousness of an unsupervised computer with internet bound us, like vestals around their sacred hearth. In groups, boys would take over and start downloading porn. Dial-up’s drag took time, froze screens. It gave us what now feels like the anxious illusion of missed moments. Everything was ...

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Livia Huang

Later after the computer breaks, I still type porny hopes on its dead keys the way you read to the comatose or throw pennies into the fountain.

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Paloma Powers

That freezing night in Manhattan, in the winter of 1992, going to the Kitchen to see the Transmission of Bill’s Agrippa. Excited to see the project debut at last. I had only consulted, as a friend – put a few key people in touch by fax, as I was still living in Tokyo at this time. But I felt I must be there, for the simultaneous birth and erasure of this book, an embrace and rejection of digital eternity. (Of course just the next morning, a bootleg appeared on Mindvox.)

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Alex Howe

Turns out the real battle is inside me, but real power is inside me too, where it was all along, like all the other protagonists.

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Nina Puro

we’re growing closer to the cracked dirt below sea level & always thirsty. foam rises up out of me at the jump cut the peak where the insurgency falls down the stairs your dry branches split

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Alex MacDonald

My granddad had these videos from the market / when you watched the boys and girls stretching / the image broke / schools of silver fish surfaced above pale skin / when I ask him about this he says it is my fault

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Brendan O'Connor

Anyway, it seems to me you don’t see brown (or even seal brown) around the Internet very much? Probably the smiling poop emoji is likely the most common brown. It’s a very organic color, brown is, signifying waste and decay, but also fertilizer and renewal. But there’s very little dirt in the digital world.

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Phil Bergevin

There were two pieces of tinfoil we were using, and the presence of the foil felt very dirty My mouth was open, and my head was tilted up.

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