Hey, I'm Candace Lim, and you're listening to I-C-Y-My. In case you missed it, Slade's podcast about internet culture.

And I'm really excited to welcome my guest today. She's the founder and supervising editor of NPR's Life Kit, and she's also the

author of a new book called Party of One. Be your own best life partner. Please welcome to the show,

Megan Kay. Hello, Megan. Hello. Thanks for having me, Candace. Megan, the funny thing about us is that we actually used to work on the same floor together

at NPR.

We sure did.

Fourth floor, best views.

And I'm so glad to reunite with you today.

Because I have a question to ask you.

Look, Megan, you are a first time guest on this show. Therefore,

I must ask, what is your first internet memory? So I wanted to be journalistically true and really

think about the first time I experienced the internet. I was thinking, I was like, maybe it was when I

started looking up song lyrics. And I

thought, no, it was like a little before that. How did I know to search for those things on the

internet? And I realized it was when my like elementary school class got told, we're going to

the library today and the librarians are going to teach you how to use ask Jeeves. And we sat like as a big class and we all learned like Boolean search with like quotation marks when you put around certain phrases and all these other things.

And just sitting around a computer with like three other fourth graders understanding like what does it mean to like quote search the internet so yeah

ask jibs is i think probably my earliest memory okay question for everyone is ask giv's AI i guess i mean

it has to be i mean look i'm the wrong person asked but i wonder if there's like a difference in like

the algorithm being used but because with with Google now, you do get

legitimate AI sources on the bot text box, right? And those are different from just searching

the internet for you. But yeah, hard to say. Maybe that was, you know, a foreshadowing event also for me

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