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Temporary Life 5: Survival of the Absent

Posted on: 12/02/200901/01/2025

When I started temping, the personal-computing revolution hadn’t yet rescued the American economy. The Internet as we know it did not exist—it was something called “The Well,” which had to be accessed by a 96-kb […]

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