The Paper
News from 100+ years ago, reproduced and delivered via email
The Paper launched on December 3, 2018 with 238 votes, #61 of 2,148 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.
What it does
The Paper is a weekly newsletter covering past events through the lens of the newspapers. Each issue covers one event from history and contains curated newspaper articles from the day it happened, reproduced in an email.
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