Hey, I'm Kate Lindsay, and you're listening to I-C-Y-M-I, or in case you missed it, Slate's

podcast about internet culture. And today we are joined by one of my

favorite Instagram follows, Annie Ruhrerda. Welcome Annie. Hi, thanks for having me. I am Debs of

Wikipedia. I am Debs of Wikipedia. That is my, that's my handle. That is me. Yes, Annie is the

brains behind the Instagram account, Depps of Wikipedia, and also author of the upcoming

book by the same name. She is an expert in all of the weird and unexpected internet rabbit

holes that are out there, which is why I could not be more excited to ask you. The question that we

ask all first time guests, what is your first or earliest internet memory?

I don't remember all of these, but I have lots of journals from second, third, fourth

grade and a few entries that I remember.

I have a journal entry where it said, I just read the entire Wikipedia article on milk,

and I learned so much and I can't wait to do this again tomorrow.

I can't wait to do this again. Those were my two, like big rabbit holes where I was like,

I need to learn what's really going on there. I didn't actually realize your Wikipedia

nis went that far back. I don't think that I was like born obsessed with encyclopedias.

Right. But I've always liked Wikipedia a lot.

Yeah. I've always edited it a little bit, but I used to just do tiny typos, and now I do a lot more.

Yeah. When you were looking up the Wikipedia for milk, was there a specific question that

brought you there? Like, what about milk?

That I don't remember, but I do remember learning about pasteurization.

It, like, it clicks to me.

I was young, but I remember being like, oh, yeah, that makes sense.

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