#100 Friends and Blasphemers

Reply All

Gimlet

Society & Culture, Documentary, Technology

4.7 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

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An online diary used by American teenagers confronts a strange and terrifying enemy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Gimlaz, this is reply-all.
0:07.6	I'm PJ vote.
0:08.6	And I'm Alex Gold.
0:10.6	Okay, so Alex.
0:14.1	Yeah.
0:15.1	I have a story for you today.
0:16.1	All righty.
0:17.1	It's a story about live journal.
0:19.7	Live journal.
0:21.1	Live journal.
0:22.1	Okay.
0:23.1	So live journal, obviously popular, early, ought, blogging platform based on the idea of like
0:29.1	signing on to the internet and putting your diary on the internet, which I remember when
0:32.9	like as a high school student, I was like, that is nuts.
0:36.5	I would never do that.
0:37.5	And what I didn't realize is like, actually, it was like fairly social.
0:40.5	Like people were writing and they were like becoming friends with other people who were
0:42.9	writing.
0:43.9	Yeah, I was a frequent denizen.
0:46.2	You were?
0:47.2	Oh, yeah, I was all over it.
0:48.1	I started my live journal in 2001.
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