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Jan 21, 2015

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How PAPER Magazine’s web engineers scaled their back-end for Kim Kardashian (SFW)

#BreakTheInternet?

On November 11th 2014, the art-and-nightlife magazine PAPER “broke the Internet” when it put a Jean-Paul Goude photograph of a well-oiled, mostly-nude Kim Kardashian on its cover and posted the same nude photos of Kim Kardashian to its website (NSFW). It linked together all of these things—and…

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