The Internet Changed My Life.
No one could have imagined the effects the Internet would have: _there__ a vast new intimacy and accidental poetry, not to mention the weirdest porn. The entire human experience seems to unveil itself like the surface of a new planet." JG Ballard, 2004
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No one could have imagined the effects the Internet would have: _there__ a vast new intimacy and accidental poetry, not to mention the weirdest porn. The entire human experience seems to unveil itself like the surface of a new planet." JG Ballard, 2004
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