Y is home from college for the rest of the summer and tells me he wants a job. So I tell him my server has 25 years of posts on it and I lost some, so I need him to go on the Wayback Machine and find them.

“What did you lose?”

“My hypertexts.”

“What?”

“Hypertexts are stories that deconstruct patriarchal tropes of self-discovery and I’m famous for writing them.”

“If you were really famous, you’d have a much longer Wikipedia page.” Read more