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Escape : How a generation shaped, destroyed and survived the internet

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'Fifteen years ago, the internet felt like a special place my friends and I had built for each other; by 2020, we were standing on its ruins, wondering if we'd played a part in its destruction.'Journalist Marie Le Conte was born in 1991, the same year the World Wide Web was invented.

She had her first blog at twelve, a successful music website at fifteen, a Wikipedia page at seventeen and now, at thirty, over 80,000 followers on Twitter.

From MSN, Tumblr and MySpace, to chat rooms, forums and blogs; Marie is part of the millennial generation that grew up while the internet was growing up with them. Where did it go all wrong? How did the internet go from a place where you went to escape real life to where real life is shaped?

A place where you could be yourself and find like-minded people to a world of filters and ads?

A place we are all now desperately trying to escape from?Escape is a fascinating exploration of the rise and demise of the internet.

It's a look back on the platforms, the people and the online places.

It's an analysis of the lessons being online has taught us, how the internet has changed us - and a celebration of the tools it gives us to feel less alone.

The online generation have forever altered the world we live in, but is the internet still a place for the people that shaped it?

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Blink Publishing
1788705157 / 9781788705158
Hardback
302.231
01/09/2022
United Kingdom
English
304 pages
22 cm

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