‘Actually, we were warned’: Marc Fennell says the horrors of the internet could have been avoided

“We don’t often talk about the history of the internet,” Marc Fennell points out. As someone who’s covered technology for most of his working life, he is well versed to offer such an insight.

“We talk about the present,” he continues, “we talk about the future – we rarely ask: ‘How did we get here?'”

Fennell’s new Audible Originals podcast series, This Is Not A Game, asks this question, dealing with the nascent days of the web and the birth of the first internet-born conspiracy theory, the legend of Ong’s Hat.