Thu. 02/18 - Improving Twitter with an 1800s Etiquette Handbook

The Los Angeles musician who helped design the microphones on the Perseverance rover that will hopefully give us our first-ever audio recordings of Mars. Can a 19th century etiquette book make Twitter bearable? And what some of the top websites looked like on this day in 2011. Sponsors: Skillshare, Get a free trial of Premium Membership at skillshare.com/kottke  OurCrowd, ourcrowd.com/kottke Links: The LA Musician Who Designed a Microphone for Mars (Wired) Everyone on Twitter Needs an Etiquette Manual (Wired) Ten Years Ago (Neal.fun) r/Stuck10YearsBehind (Reddit) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices