By Brian Clark
Out of the primordial soup — back in the early 1990s they came.
They weren’t pretty. They weren’t compelling. They’re repulsive to look at today.
But we bought them — lots of them.
They were the first ebooks.
Remember Times Roman? There was page after page of it, like an 8th grade book report.
Remember the yellow highlighter on the sales page? How it made our hearts beat a little faster?
Remember how the sweat beaded on our upper lips when we thought we might miss out on the low, low price, available for only a few more hours? That’s what the red headline said.
We spent good money on those ebooks, and we thought they were first-rate. We thought wrong …
We just didn’t know any better.
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