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Mark Dery on the old, weird eBay
Boing Boing EBay, the first e-commerce site, was until recently the web's kitschier, crummier answer to (cultural critic Walter) Benjamin's arcades or Breton's Saint-Ouen. In its early years, its hit-or-miss search engine was conducive to close encounters of the … |
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