On May 3, 1978 Gary Thuerk, a marketer at the now-defunct computer firm Digital Equipment Corporation, sent an email to 393 users of Arpanet, the US government-run computer network that eventually became the internet. It was the first spam email ever.
Twitter Away Your Life
We start as social creatures, isolate ourselves into small rooms writhing with power strips, then make friends with similarly sequestered people, trying to re-create the very communities we’re avoiding.
The Economics of the Internet
It boggles my mind that there are so many businesses that have yet to comprehend the basic reality of the internet (Movie studios and music labels, I’m looking at you)
These businesses are in the distribution business, which is to say, they are in the scarcity business. For their products, scarcity is directly related to price. [...]
Surviving a Month Without Internet
Surviving a Month Without Internet
Shutdown Day
What are you doing on Shutdown day?
24 March 2007 is going to be “one of the biggest global experiments ever to take place on the internet. The idea behind the experiment is to find out how many people can go without a computer for one whole day, and what will happen if we all participate!”
The [...]
www. is deprecated
www. is deprecated
Where are you on the ‘net?
Where are you on the ‘net?
Happy Birthday Intarweb!
According to the timeline on W3.org, the web turns 16 today.
The first web server was nxoc01.cern.ch, later called info.cern.ch, and the first web page http://nxoc01.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html Unfortunately CERN no longer supports the historical site. Note from this era too, the least recently modified web [...]
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