Twenty positive things that happened on the internet

Earlier today, I fumed audibly about trolls on Twitter:

Sometimes I worry that history will look back at the internet and say, “They spent a decade just innovating on troll throughput?”
— David Yee (@tangentialism) May 23, 2014

Within minutes, my friend David Jacobs, the internet’s most vigilant defender against idle whining, responded thusly:

@tangentialism untrue. Your Friday assignment is twenty tweets about positive things that happened on the internet! It’s so easy.
— David Jacobs (@djacobs) May 23, 2014

So, yeah: Dark days come and go, but Friday should be sacrosanct. Duly submitted, then, on this, the second-to-last Friday of May, 2014, is my list of twenty positive things that have happened on the Internet. Thinking of the first three or so was pretty hard, but it got a lot easier after that–I ended up having to trim a few things out (saved, probably, for the next time I complain?)

David has his own list of positive internet things, and you probably do, too. These, in no particular order, are mine. Consider this my penitence for a negative Friday outlook.

Twenty Positive Things That Happened on the Internet

—May 23 2014

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