A nice history of chat.meatspac.es.
NYTMagazine article about Twitter that doesn't mention TXTMob. Whoops.
"Unusual marketing technique: an inventor offered a demonstration of his custom-built speedboat design by speeding past security and crashing the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. It was 1897, the sixtieth year of Queen Victoria’s reign. Charles Algernon Parsons was bent on making steampunk mad science out of his rather practical discovery, the modern reaction turbine."
Simple little article on the history of piracy by Christine Schweidler and Sasha Constanza-Chock.