The Stream represents the triumph of reverse-chronology, where importance—above-the-foldness—is based exclusively on nowness….

“The Stream represents the triumph of reverse-chronology, where importance—above-the-foldness—is based exclusively on nowness. There are great reasons for why The Stream triumphed. In a world of infinite variety, it’s difficult to categorize or even find, especially before a thing has been linked. So time, newness, began to stand in for many other things. And now the Internet’s media landscape is like a never-ending store, where everything is free. No matter how hard you sprint for the horizon, it keeps receding. There is always something more.”

–2013: The Year ‘the Stream’ Crested - Atlantic Mobile (viaphotographsonthebrain)