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Comment by danso

5 years ago

You can find an Internet Archive snapshot here: https://web.archive.org/web/20200707133437/https://harpers.o...

FWIW getting server errors on this did make me chuckle, because the publisher of Harper's Magazine has had a reputation for being a neo-Luddite when it comes to web publishing [0]:

> He described being trapped in a corridor in the early 2000s “by a small mob of what I can’t help but refer to as ‘young people.’ ” Those youths, he wrote, demanded that he open the magazine to online readers. What he told them was “essentially, forget it.” The web, to him, “wasn’t much more than a gigantic Xerox machine” designed to rob publishers and writers.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20160112032957/https://www.nytim...