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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.