Teaching the internet.

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Hands-On BASIC: On Loving Computers and Reading

I recently read W. Patrick McCray’s excellent book README: A Bookish History of Computing from Electronic Brains to Everything Machines (2025), and its central thesis that the history of computing is bound up in books resonated, because the origins of my love of computers and my love of books

Why "Teaching the Internet"?

In a January 2016 interview on the Hard Fork podcast, Jonathan Haidt makes a striking assertion about the potential effects of the smartphone and social media bans he’s been promoting for the last several years. Hard Fork co-host Casey Newton, who elsewhere in the interview notes that he has