Thu. 02/11 - Myspace is back!

How the UK variant of Sars-CoV-2 may have evolved inside just one human. Some dating apps are adding video components, but it’s just another case of modern tech “inventing” something that has already existed for decades. Let’s talk about the original recipe. And a German teenager has created a new Myspace. Not like a social media platform similar to Myspace. Literally he recreated a functional clone of Myspace. And it’s pretty awesome.

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Links:

• A lone infection may have changed the course of the pandemic (Wired)
• How 1970s VCR dating paved the way for Tinder and Hinge (Vox)
• A Teenager Has Remade Myspace and Everyone Is Loving It (Vice)
• spacehey.com/jackisnotabird
• Kottke.Org
• Jackson Bird on Twitter