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Hello, Netizens

Dear Netizens,

Web 1.0 is a slick, buzzing, arduous road. As you zoom down the cyber-highway––audaciously slashing past banner ads, pinging strangers on MSN––you wonder if a user-generated content model would make the Internet more customizable, decentralized, or if the illusion of “choice” would concealed a top-down system, run by algorithmic conglomerates.

We will answer this question one day.

For now, however, time has stopped: it is 2003.

Twitter does not exist. Instagram does not exist. TikTok is a post-modern fever dream. The star-makers of this world are Blogger, Xanga, LiveJournal.

If you enjoy essays on up-and-coming cultural producers––David Lynch! Toni Morrison! Roberto Bolaño! Annie Ernaux!––short stories, and recommendations, you can subscribe to Charlie’s Blog for free.

I hope you are well, netizens. Or, as well as you can be.

xoxo,

Charlie

P.S. With thanks to: Liva Pierce (for photoshopping my name onto the Blogger logo), Fariha Róisín (for the encouragement), and James Factora, Lex McMenamin, Grace Byron, River Ramirez, Katherine Packert Burke, Monika Woods, and Spike Einbinder for talking to me about David Lynch/David Foster Wallace/whatever <3