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New Yorker writer Kyle Chayka came of age alongside the internet. As a teen, he published his own blog and joined forums for fans of anime and the Dave Matthews Band. He discovered one of his favorite jazz songs — John Coltrane’s full version of “My Favorite Things,” a song originally written for The Sound of Music — driving around at night as a high school student, listening to the local radio station.

Chayka is nostalgic for this time — and the ways, then, that personal discoveries like these were made. In

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