'Back to ourselves'

At Lincolnville, Maine’s centennial

Narcissus, by Caravaggio

“We thought that the Internet was going to connect us all together. As a young geek in rural Maine, I got excited about the Internet because it seemed that I could be connected to the world. What it's looking like increasingly is that the Web is connecting us back to ourselves.’’

Eli Pariser, the chief executive of Upworthy, a Web site for "meaningful" viral content. He hails from Lincolnville, Maine.

Lincolnville Beach in high summer