We are the nerds: the birth and tumultuous life of Reddit, the internet's culture laboratory [First edition] 9780316435406, 0316435406

A riveting look inside Reddit, the wildly popular, often misunderstood website, whose intensely-engaged users have chang

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English Pages xiv, 490 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm Year 2019;2018

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We are the nerds: the birth and tumultuous life of Reddit, the internet's culture laboratory [First edition]
 9780316435406, 0316435406

Table of contents :
This guy has no shame --
How to start a startup --
Not your standard fixed-point combinator --
Front page of the internet --
It's online --
Hell summer --
How to act like a real adult --
Rounding error --
The algorithm and the cupboard --
You are making us sound stupid --
We are the nerds --
The deal --
Chasing that moment --
Millionaires' ball --
You aren't a bank teller --
A moment before dying --
The physicist, the information cowboy, the hacker, and the troll --
Mister Splashy Pants and the Large Hadron Collider --
Benign neglect --
Tools, yo --
Take me home --
The ones that got away --
Geek Woodstock --
Exodus and ill will --
Free-speech sandbox --
Blackout --
Meet your new CEO --
Not bad! --
The id --
Omniscient guardians of the depths --
The internet bus --
The 117th Boston Marathon --
Money on the mind --
Every man is responsible for his own soul --
Tiny boxes --
Unbelievable because it's so weird --
Closer to yes --
The poltergeist --
10 --
Revenge and revenge porn --
Fame and its inverse --
AMAgeddon --
The return of Steve --
Fuzzy approach --
"Serendipity" and "bullshit" --
r/The_Donald --
Spezgiving --
What's good for the United States --
This is my whole life --
Reddit 4.0 --
Salesman emeritus --
Live from Hollywood --
All together now.

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