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How the Web Was Lost
Read November 17, 2025

Publication Details

Type: Article
Publisher: The New York Review
Published: December 4, 2025

Reading Details

Words: 4300
Location: Lawrence, Kansas (US)
Source: View Online

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Books Reviewed:

This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web
by Tim Berners-Lee with Stephen Witt
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 389 pp.

Amateurs! How We Built Internet Culture, and Why It Matters
by Joanna Walsh
Verso, 262 pp.

Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
by Cory Doctorow

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