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The Death of Everything Has Been Greatly Exaggerated

Nick Gillespie | 8.24.2010 7:03 PM

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Not long ago in Wired, Chris Anderson declared the web dead (though he proclaimed the Internet to be thriving).

Via Jim Henley's Unqualified Offerings comes this link to a story of how dead technologies just seem to live on and on and on.

Email, Internet Explorer, the Macintosh, Twitter, Linux, Microsoft Office, the Wii, Microsoft, Firefox, you name it. All pronounced as dead as second-hand Liza Minelli slags. And yet all still curiously living.

As Motörhead could have told you years ago, the only way to die is to be Killed by Death. Take it away, boys:

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Nick Gillespie is an editor at large at Reason and host of The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie.

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