Tag: history
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Fordlandia: showing us how incremental the internet age really is
I picked up Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City (affiliate link) at the local library both because it was listed as a top ten business book of 2009 on some list somewhere and because the premise seemed so bizarre: Henry Ford once owned a chunk of the Amazon rainforest twice […]
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History, Nostalgia, and the Modern Web, via ads
I did a quickie (and slightly cryptic) post a little while ago comparing old school comic book ads to Google Ads, but a post on Boing Boing about a man who bought a monkey via a comic ad got me to thinking some more. No, I’m not about to go out and buy a monkey […]