(8) How it Started, How it’s Going

The Cost of Conspiracy

“The hope of impunity is a…

(1) 80s Computers, Modems and the BBS

The late 70s and early 80s was a cool time to be a kid, our days punctuated with Star Wars…

(5) 4Chan

It all started with a site called SomethingAwful. Created in the late 90s as a comedy site, it would give birth to many core aspects of…

(2) Talk Radio, Commuting and the Fairness Doctrine

(9) The Unraveling Begins, Leading to an Inevitable End

(4) Cellphones, Email and the World Wide Web

For a sliver of time, pagers were the rage. Sometimes…

(7) Qanon, Boogaloos and Amplifying the Id

Greek mythology sought to explain humanity’s role in the…

(6) Web 2.0, 9/11 and Fox News

It was called Web 2.0, a movement from static domain-generated content to user generated, empowering the…

(3) 24 Hour News, Reality TV and Truth

Ted Turner, a man famous for creating the first 24-hour-news network, CNN, and marrying Jane…