In Fall 1994, I wrote an article called "Cheap Speech and What It Will Do," which became my first publication as a law professor. It was for a Yale Law Journal symposium called "Emerging Media Technology and the First Amendment," which was about the then-emerging technology of the Internet. (Fun fact: Back then, we would hammer out our manuscripts with chisels on clay tablets.) Thirty years later, I thought I'd serialize the piece here, to see what I may have gotten right—and what I got wrong, from "infobahn" to people printing out daily newsletters to read them.
I've omitted most of the footnotes—you can see them here—but I've moved a few of the substantive ones into text, marking them (as I usually do for moved text) with { and }. This morning, I begin with the Introduction.
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