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• Hashtags — How a Pound Sign Became the Street Address of the Internet
  Nobody designed hashtags; a user proposed them, the platform ignored them, and the crowd used them anyway. Nearly two decades of the cheapest organising idea on the social web, and what still makes one work.
• Disappearing Content — Why the Internet Fell in Love With Posts That Expire
  The most successful social feature of the last decade was a post designed to die in 24 hours. Why ephemerality lowers the cost of sharing, what it does to memory, and why "permanent" was never actually free.