Thu. 02/18 - Improving Twitter with an 1800s Etiquette Handbook

The Los Angeles musician who helped design the microphones on the Perseverance rover that will hopefully give us our first-ever audio recordings of Mars. Can a 19th century etiquette book make Twitter bearable? And what some of the top websites looked like on this day in 2011.

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Links:

• The LA Musician Who Designed a Microphone for Mars (Wired)
• Everyone on Twitter Needs an Etiquette Manual (Wired)
• Ten Years Ago (Neal.fun)
• r/Stuck10YearsBehind (Reddit)
• Kottke.Org
• Jackson Bird on Twitter