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Marie Le Conte (born 1991) is a French-Moroccan journalist and author, based in London.
- Nostalgia For Geek Communities
- The Lucky Microgeneration
- The Weirdest Porn Had Frozen Trout
- The Arrival of The Beautiful People
- The Algorithm Is Like My Cat
“I’ve identified two periods of the internet,” explains Le Conte. “In my formative years it was very much a place for people who weren’t very attractive in real life: they were very weird, they didn’t have many friends, and their hobbies were weird.” Le Conte includes herself in that list: “We all ended up in that space, because in real life we wer...
One afternoon in 2007, at the age of 15, Le Conte had a completely “boring” experience of the 20th century. She organized a concert with small bands in her hometown. “What we did was basically piss off my father by printing a lot of brochures on his printer. Then we went to distribute them to the cool parts of the city. At that time, it was still t...
The book’s chapter on the discovery of sex and porn is perhaps the one that best illustrates the difference between that early and modern-day internet. At the age of 12, in 2003, Le Conte and a group of friends played a contest to “find the weirdest porn on the internet.” Today, the results of such a search would be unpublishable. At the time, thou...
The expansion of porn was just a symptom. Le Conte sees several more steps in the internet’s evolution, such as the boom of Facebook and when Tumblr ceased to be a niche network. Most key, though, was when the bloggers gave way to the influencers. Le Conte has an elaborate theory about this step: “If you were a blogger, you did it because you liked...
“People 10 years younger have grown up on an internet that I don’t recognize,” writes Le Conte: “I was talking about it with a friend recently and we felt older.” She uses Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr and most other common applications, but has markedTikTok as her limit. “I don’t like it. I’m never going to have TikTok on my phone because I tried, an...
Hi! My name is Marie Le Conte, I’m a French-Moroccan freelance journalist living in London. I write features on British politics for the i newspaper, book reviews for the Sunday Times, and host frequent interviews for the Bunker podcast.
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Sep 6, 2022 · Marie Le Conte is one of them. In Escape, she tells the story of her upbringing and introduction to the internet, and how it shaped her. Through that personal story, she tries to tackle the...
Aug 29, 2022 · Marie Le Conte grew up alongside the internet. The French-Moroccan journalist, best known for her political commentary, was born in 1991, the year the World Wide Web was launched, and spent her formative years entwined in the rapidly growing online universe.
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Sep 1, 2022 · In what turned out to be a sometimes funny, sometimes sad, honest, personal but - to a worrying extent - extremely relatable testimonial of the pioneer generation, Marie explores different dimensions of what OUR Internet was like, how it shaped many members of our generation into - I'd say 'hybrid' (half online, half offline) individuals.
