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“It once ran the whole fun part of the internet, and it never asked for a flashlight”
“She read the news so Hungary's story never went unwitnessed.”
Hungarian Spectrum was a daily blog covering the political and social currents of Hungary, started in 2007 by historian Eva S. Balogh. For readers who wanted a clear-eyed, historically informed account of what was happening in their country, it was a daily fixture. Balogh's scholarship gave the coverage a depth a daily blog rarely manages.
The blog ran from 2007 until November 30, 2021, when it ended with Balogh's own death — there was no quiet handoff or formal farewell, just fourteen years of work that stopped with its author. What remains is a fourteen-year daily record of Hungarian life, kept by someone who knew the history behind the headlines.
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“It once ran the whole fun part of the internet, and it never asked for a flashlight”
“It ranked the whole web so the rest of us could know where we stood.”
“Walkman in our pockets, Ericsson in our hearts.”