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Entertainment used to have a very different face before the online world took over. Books (what’s a book?) used to tell stories, transporting readers to imaginary worlds – the original escapism. Then eventually, people got impatient and wanted their stories told in a simpler, faster way – enter Movies and TV. But in our modern times, it is the personal and interactive process of discovery – of being in on the joke – that allows the internet to transcend other entertainment media.

I remember the first time I experienced the internet as a source of fun. I was in middle school, and some friends and I were “hanging out” in one of our parents’ basements. There, my friend Kris, who had learned about it from his older sister (this is what “viral” was back then), played a flash video that would forever change my life. Read More