Hanging by a thread: How the online nerdy T-shirt economy exists in an IP world

Enlarge / A moviegoer wearing his Superman T-shirt in the lobby prior to watching the new Superman Returns movie on June 27, 2006 in Chicago… little did we all know what kind of a film awaited (sigh). (credit: Tim Boyle/Getty Images)

Most everybody has at least one. It may be buried in the back of a closet somewhere or wadded up in a pile, forgotten. Perhaps it’s even clinging to your back right now, fitting you to, well, a tee.

The humble T-shirt has been a staple of daily life for what feels like forever, and the Internet has only enhanced humanity’s fondness for it.

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Ars Technica

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Martin is an enthusiastic programmer, a webdeveloper and a young entrepreneur. He is intereted into computers for a long time. In the age of 10 he has programmed his first website and since then he has been working on web technologies until now. He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of BriefNews.eu and PCHealthBoost.info Online Magazines. His colleagues appreciate him as a passionate workhorse, a fan of new technologies, an eternal optimist and a dreamer, but especially the soul of the team for whom he can do anything in the world.

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