Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • The Guardian

    David Foster Wallace was right – even in paradise we will need the internet | Brigid Delaney

    There was one thing he didn’t predict: that when entertainment and addiction met in the internet, rage and hate would follow
    by Brigid Delaney Sep 20, 2018 4 minutes
    ‘In 2018 I spend so much time on Twitter, I wouldn’t be surprised if my epitaph read: “She had some good tweets”.’ Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo

    What did the internet look like in 1996? It was both basic and chaotic – message boards and some forums. Few people had email. You had to dial up with a modem. There was no social media – no Facebook or Twitter or Wikipedia.

    According to Slate, in 1996 Americans with the internet spent less than 30 minutes a month on it. It was just too slow – and anyway, it tied up the phone line.

    That year, the writer David Foster Wallace was winding up a national book tour for his door-stopper Infinite Jest. He was 34 and the book was his generation’s Ulysses (or Finnegans Wake

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from The Guardian

    The Guardian4 min read
    Whether In Song Or In Silence, Shane MacGowan Exuded The Very Essence Of Life
    Shane MacGowan and I sat in near silence for two hours last year. We were at his home, just outside Dublin. I’d been warned by his wife, the writer Victoria Mary Clarke, that he was depressed and anxious, not really in the mood to talk. But nothing c
    The Guardian4 min read
    ‘Almost Like Election Night’: Behind The Scenes Of Spotify Wrapped
    There’s a flurry of activities inside Spotify’s New York City’s offices in the Financial District. “It’s almost like election night,” Louisa Ferguson, Spotify’s global head of marketing experience says, referring to a bustling newsroom. At the same t
    The Guardian8 min read
    PinkPantheress: ‘I Don’t Think I’m Very Brandable. I Dress Weird. I’m Shy’
    PinkPantheress no longer cares what people think of her. When she released her lo-fi breakout tracks Break it Off and Pain on TikTok in early 2021, aged just 19, she did so anonymously, partly out of fear of being judged. Now, almost three years late

    Related