You paint a compelling portrait of pre-internet academic life. I'd be curious to know how other academics react to that. I remember Brad DeLong's article (almost 20 years ago!) defending the value of blogging and online interactions as part of the intellectual community, but I don't know if he would have additional caveats now: https://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2006/07/the_invisible_c.html
You paint a compelling portrait of pre-internet academic life. I'd be curious to know how other academics react to that. I remember Brad DeLong's article (almost 20 years ago!) defending the value of blogging and online interactions as part of the intellectual community, but I don't know if he would have additional caveats now: https://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2006/07/the_invisible_c.html