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Pull up a beige chair. These are true little stories from people who built, broke, ranked, hosted and accidentally monetised the early web—and a living archive of internet history told by the people who were there.

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The Borg Collective

Before Spotify, before YouTube and even before BitTorrent took over, I spent time in an mIRC community called The Borg Collective. It was one of those underground IRC chat rooms where people gathered to chat, queue for downloads and share huge collections of MP3 files. If you wa…

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