1969

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• 11/10/19
  

  Echoes of the 1969 Vietnam War Protests 50 Years Later

  by Jim Castagnera

  "As I watch events unfolding in Washington today, I recall the river of candles flowing up Fifth Avenue fifty years ago. The more things change, the more they remain the same.”

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• 11/5/19
  

  The Internet at 50: The future and “dissolving containers”

  by Harlan Lebo

  The internet has long been on a path of constant reinvention, with flux being the sole constant. The biggest question of all is: where will digital technology go next? 

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• 10/29/19
  

  The Internet at 50: The Night the Internet Was Born

  by Harlan Lebo

  If there was a single moment that would define the start of the technology that would become the internet – this was it: the future was born. 

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• 10/15/19
  

  The Internet at 50: Four Steps in Transforming the Digital World

  by Harlan Lebo

  The internet may have been “born” in October 1969, but it then percolated for years as complex, near-impenetrable masses of data stored in computers around the world. Online technology would evolve for more than two decades before it would become practical for everyone to use. 

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• 9/5/19
  

  How The Media Covered Woodstock – and How Woodstock Changed The Media

  by Harlan Lebo

  Woodstock was a milestone – not just in coverage of the music scene, but also in broader media exploration of social and economic issues that affect younger audiences. 

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  8/18/19
  

  What 1969 Retrospectives Get Wrong About Baby Boomers and the Sixties

  by Louis Menand

  Apart from being alive, baby boomers had almost nothing to do with the nineteen-sixties.

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• 8/11/19
  

  Counterculture 1969: a Gateway to the Darkest and the Brightest

  by Harlan Lebo

  The question of how counterculture emerges is a reflection of an era, with results that produced the worst and best of a generation.

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• 8/11/19
  

  The Cultural History Behind Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood

  by David L. O'Connor

  Like most folktales, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood is filled with interesting characters, events, and messages from a bygone era.