Before it was swamped by weird and lurid images, bizarre and titillating video clips , and offensive or obscurantist memes, the internet produced what may be the final flowering of literary culture . Emails, forum threads, blogs, and even tweets and status updates were mostly text. More writing was produced in the early years of the 21st century than at any other point in human history .

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