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What have we lost because of the internet? Sean Elling, one of the hosts of Vox Conversations,

is going to take it from here.

When I was 13 years old, my dad took me to Radio Shack at the mall, back when there were still

Radio Shacks and malls. To get our first Tandy computer, it was this big, bulky, slow thing.

I didn't really know anything about computers or the internet, but it was exciting as hell.

I still remember the sound of that glorious 56k dial-up modem. Can you hear it?

But then things changed. The internet became more accessible, more pervasive, more immersive.

The journey from AOL to the iPhone wasn't overnight, but it kind of feels like it was.

Today, the internet isn't something you do at home for fun. It's everywhere, all the time.

We're never not plugged in. We're never truly offline.

And the world has been so transformed by these technologies that it's

almost impossible to imagine living without them, even if we wanted to. We couldn't.

My guest today is Hamila Paul. Paul is the editor of The New York Times Book Review,

and the author of a new book called 100 Things We've Lost to the Internet.

The title makes it sound like a limitation, but it's not exactly that.

It's a swan song for a world that sort of died without us really noticing that it happened.

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