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253. Is the Internet Being Ruined?

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How Not to Network a Nation, the Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet by Benjamin Peters

Robinhood is an investing platform that helps serious investors with their financial goals. The internet, in its relatively short history, has already evolved a lot. As we've been hearing on the show today, the shape and pace of this evolution was hardly foreordained. In America, a young Soviet-born computer scientist named Sergei Brin went to be a co-founder of Google.

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