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Tim Berners-Lee: Monopolies and Lack of Public Infrastructure Are Ruining the Web
The world wide web, the information space we all use to connect on the internet, is 29 years old. Its founder, Tim Berners-Lee, wants the world to come together to close the digital divide.
Long Live Gopher: The Techies Keeping the Text-Driven Internet Alive
The Gopher protocol isn’t supported by the modern web basically at all, but despite this, it lingers on, a quarter century from its peak. Here’s how.
Werner Herzog Has Met The Internet and It Is Us
In his new documentary "Lo And Behold," Werner Herzog explores the cave of never-forgotten dreams.
'All Things Not Weezer' Was an Internet Paradise and Then We Paved Over It
There once was a place called All Things Not Weezer. And it is the reason I am who I am today.
Constant Dullaart, URL Killer
The strange comment Constant Dullaart left on my wall sounded like him, but I knew that it wasn't.
What the Biggest Internet Land Grab Ever .Means
h5. ^"Unleashing the global human imagination": Rod Beckstrom, president and CEO of ICANN^. Today, The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the organization in charge of maintaining the Internet's address system, "opened the...
What Does the Internet Look Like?
In 2007, _Popular Science_ broke important ground in Internet visualization theory—an ongoing effort to describe what happens behind our computer screens, or, more accurately, beyond them, inside Ethernet cables and satellites lying around in the upper...
What Online Internet Websites Looked Like in 2001
In 2001, the majority of Americans didn’t have the Internet.
A Warning About the "Dark Side" of the Web from the Birthplace of the Web
h5. CERN's computer storage facility On August 8, 1989, someone published a web page at "http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html":http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html. It was...