Voices from the Net
Last updated October 31, 2026
By Clay Shirky
Clay Shirky's first book is a portrait of online life in the mid-1990s, before the web became part of everyday experience. He describes the people and communities he found on bulletin boards, mailing lists and early networks. Through portraits of individual users, he looks at how people met, argued, shared and formed friendships online, and what those early exchanges suggested about how the net would change communication.
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