A Buenos Aires plaza turned into an impromptu wildlife preserve last Sunday. Teenagers in lifelike animal masks ran on all fours across the grass. A 15-year-old named Aguara — who identifies as a Belgian Malinois and counts her age in dog years — leapt through an obstacle course. Others dressed…
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AOL Dial-Up Curtain Call – Goodbye to the Screech Heard ‘Round the World
Thirty-two years ago, I logged onto AOL for the first time. I was in my twenties, excited about this thing called the “Information Superhighway,” and there it was: the scratchy, robotic modem sound that—let’s be honest—sounded like R2-D2 in a fistfight with a fax machine. That sound still cracks me…