# Legends of the Ancient Web

<http://idlewords.com/talks/ancient_web.htm>

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- Saved: January 12, 2018 (2018-01-12T12:51:23Z)
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## What Jamie wrote

Recent talk by [Maciej Cegłowski](http://idlewords.com/about.htm) talking about the history of radio and how that was used as a tool of mass influence. Adds some perspective to todays debates about the web and social media.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT36: Weekly Thing for January 13, 2018](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/36/), Links 📌

## Same host

- [Remarks at the SASE Panel On The Moral Economy of Tech](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/fa3c6aace8c9/) (idlewords.com, June 28, 2016)
- [Deep-Fried Data](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/7838336483e5/) (idlewords.com, October 3, 2016)
- [Anatomy of a Moral Panic](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/29e278d672e8/) (idlewords.com, September 21, 2017)
- [Idle Words - Talks - Privacy Rights and Data Collection in a Digital Economy (Senate hearing)](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/060f07764fc5/) (idlewords.com, May 16, 2019)
- [The New Wilderness (Idle Words)](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/ceb053809f34/) (idlewords.com, June 14, 2019)

## Saved the same week

- [One Player's 21,000 Hole Quest to Beat the Seemingly Endless 'Desert Golf' - Waypoint](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/96bebbb2f055/) (waypoint.vice.com, January 12, 2018)
- [The Strange Brands in Your Instagram Feed - The Atlantic](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/b0e9ea1d7f99/) (theatlantic.com, January 12, 2018)
- [Cory Doctorow: Persuasion, Adaptation, and the Arms Race for Your Attention – Locus Online](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/1a5755df3d09/) (locusmag.com, January 12, 2018)
- [No tracking, no revenue: Apple's privacy feature costs ad companies millions | Technology | The Guardian](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/88293c776d8e/) (theguardian.com, January 12, 2018)
- [Birdcage liners – Joel on Software](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/d1f5f3f8ad68/) (joelonsoftware.com, January 12, 2018)

## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://idlewords.com/talks/ancient_web.htm