The Internet as Place and Person
Why do we anthropomorphize the internet?
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As the internet has aged and evolved, the way we talk about it has changed.
Joanne McNeil writes in her fantastic book Lurking (emphasis mine):
People used to talk about the internet as a place. The information superhighway. A frontier. The internet was something to get on. Even the desktop metaphor was in turn clarifying, then confusing: it helped people…