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Happy Birthday, Internet

Yeah yeah, there are about 7 different “birthdays” for the Internet, but it was 20 years ago today that the first HTML web page went live, so nyah.

I subscribed to my first ISP in 1994. When I told Gary Polecat, he let me know he’d be honored to be the first person in the world to send me an email. I went home, plugged the phone line into the little plastic tab sticking out of the side of my laptop, waited 2 weeks or so for the mail to load, and clicked on it, full of a sense of awe inspired by the limitless possibilities symbolized by this unspoiled new frontier.

Gary sent me an image of a woman with a Pepsi can inserted halfway into her ladynethers.

Happy Birthday, Internet.

lawbi #7: Sexual Revolution Boomerangs, Comes Back Filthy

In the past month or so, we’ve read a report detailing an alarming rise in teen pregnancy. We’ve read a report insinuating that a majority of young British women think some rape victims are asking for it. And we’ve seen Apple pulling most of the “sexy” novelty swimsuit and lingerie and topless and shaky-boob applications from the iPhone App Store.

Taken individually, these announcements don’t seem like much more than the idiosyncratic moral status quo — just more evidence that the English-speaking world remains confused and terrified by its own sexuality, and unwilling to discuss the topic in any realistic context.

But three’s a trend, the cynical journalists say, and against the backdrop of fierce ongoing battles over such progressive cultural goals as legalized gay marriage, I sense a larger movement behind these recent newsbits. In fact, I sense nothing less than the creeping encroachment of a New Puritanism.

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