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Before the Algorithm Knew Your Name: The Chaotic Magic of Early YouTube's Rabbit Holes
Internet Culture

Before the Algorithm Knew Your Name: The Chaotic Magic of Early YouTube's Rabbit Holes

Before recommendation engines got smart, YouTube was a beautiful mess — and that mess quietly built the internet we live in today. We dug through the digital archaeology of channels, deleted archives, and dead-end rabbit holes that somehow shaped everything. What exactly did we lose when the algorithm got good at its job?
Tuning Into Nothing: The Artists Who Make Music From Frequencies You Were Never Meant to Hear
Music & Sound

Tuning Into Nothing: The Artists Who Make Music From Frequencies You Were Never Meant to Hear

A growing community of experimental musicians is building entire careers out of sounds most people spend their lives trying to filter out — radio static, shortwave broadcasts, electromagnetic interference, the hum of failing machines. We talked to the artists hunting these frequencies and asked them why the chaos sounds so much like something.