Today in oh-wow-we-actually-ran-this cover finds: Newsweek, May 1994. We say no, he’s probably not as cute as his email.

A big piece of what makes Tumblr special is its ability to provide total freedom of expression … And it allows you to customize anything and launch your blog quickly and easily. That’s why we’ve attracted the creative community. You share whatever you want. You customize how it’s displayed, and that lets people create these identities they’re really proud of.

Tumblr CEO David Karp, on what separates Tumblr from other platforms.

Things the Internet Killed, from the folks at Newsweek photo. Pictured: civility. (Photo credit: Corbis.)

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john:

tanya77:

rollingstone:

Yes we did! Hi everyone.

Hi RS. Feel free to break some shit over here.

What Tanya said. 

Holler!

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theweekmagazine:

Facebook is creepy.

British journalist David McCandless searched 10,000 Facebook status updates for words like “broken” and “breakup” that suggested romantic relationships had ended. He then plotted the data to reveal when Facebook users were most likely to get dumped over the course of a year.

Xmas is the safest day for relationships, but for some unknown reason, Mondays in April are danger zones.

Genius.

The recent State Department “travel alert” for Europe proves once again that bin Laden can rely on his enemies to spread his message for him, writes Christopher Dickey .

markcoatney:

Mr. Armstrong estimates that about 10 million to 12 million visitors to AOL sites are tied to its dial-up subscription business.

Wow. This is amazing. 

Dear God!

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huffposttech:

HuffPost’s own Jose Antonio Vargas profiles Mark Zuckerberg for The New Yorker.

Zuckerberg has found all his homes on Craigslist. His first place was a sparse one-bedroom apartment that a friend described as something like a “crack den.” […] “He’s the poorest rich person I’ve ever seen in my life,” Tyler Winklevoss said.

We are totally the richest poor people we’ve ever seen.

The magic age is people born after 1981,” said Sam Altman in a New York Times article. “That’s the cut-off for us where we see a big change in privacy settings and user acceptance.

i’ve always said that the dividing line between internet natives and their elder generations is whether or not you had sex or the internet first.

People born after 1981 have lower privacy standards

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but what about sex ON the internet?