We Love the Internet 2024/28: The When did Rock & Roll die edition

Part 1: For the day job

Things to think about:

• “Magic notebooks, not magic girlfriends”
• Before Smartphones, an Army of Real People Helped You Find Stuff on Google

Reference points:

• When Did Rock & Roll Die? A Statistical Analysis
• The 111 Best Horror Movie Kills of All Time, Ranked
• Netflix Games’ Second Season: Challenges, Changes, and the Path Forward

Longer reads:

• How “The Real World” created modern reality TV
• Winter of Content
• What Happened to People Magazine?
• What A Century (Plus a Pandemic) Does to Moviegoing and Why It Matters

Part 2: For the lunch-break

Things to play with/watch/listen to:

• bro recreated this skit
• Well @thekillers just did the coolest thing ever on stage as England won the semi final…

Things to look at/read:

• Pinball is cool again — and these stunning machines are why
• A Sock War Is Afoot Between Millennials and Gen Z

Animal corner:

• Cooling them armpits
• Neither Maple nor the Spare Human were harmed in the making of this video
• Turtle fcking skating to a shocked cat
• I can’t stop watching this
• potato bandit strikes again

Tweets of the week:

• How high are her trousers?!
• Me ordering a bottle of wine with lunch.
• yup
• We are so back
• Passed with a “handful of minor issues”.. celebrities they’re just like us
• construction vehicles in reverse
• The England fans have found a German copper who looks like Southgate
• This is an Arrested Development joke

Part 3: For the weekend

Longer reads:

• Inside Snapchat’s Teen Opioid Crisis
• How the fridge changed flavor
• Priscila, Queen of the Rideshare Mafia

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