In the early 1990s, the early internet was growing exponentially. Many of the new users would beeline straight for one of the most active and interesting places online: a Usenet group named ‘alt’. It was a kind of free-for-all group of chat rooms which some said stood for ‘anarchists, libertarians and terrorists’. Old timers on alt, perhaps irate about …
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