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Yesterday’s Futures: The Limits of Our Vision
In 1969, the Post Office Research Station at Dollis Hill, U.K., produced a video titled “Telecommunications services for the 1990s.” Predictably, it extrapolates from the reality (no distortion here) of the telephone network of the 1960s. Only the transmission is digital; the rest … Continue reading
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The Way We Want it Now
Online Graduate Programs: “Since the burgeoning of the Internet industry, the way people live their lives has rapidly changed. The U.S. has seen people turn to their computers for everything, from working to shopping to attending school. The speed at … Continue reading
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Mozilla 1.0 Released
Ten years ago today, the Mozilla Organization made publicly available the Mozilla 1.0 browser suite. The Firefox project began as an experimental branch of the Mozilla project by Dave Hyatt, Joe Hewitt and Blake Ross. To combat what they saw as … Continue reading
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First WWW Conference
Today in 1994, the First International WWW Conference was held at CERN, Geneva. Tim Berners-Lee in Weaving the Web: “It was the first time the people who were developing the Web were brought together with all sorts of people who were using it … Continue reading
The Who’s Who of the World Wide Web
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The Increasing Diversity of Online Access
Pew Internet: The ways in which people connect to the internet are much more varied today than they were in 2000. As a result, internet access is no longer synonymous with going online with a desktop computer: Currently, 88% of … Continue reading
The WELL: Oldest continuing online community
Today in 1985, The Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link (the WELL) opened for business, allowing customers to register on-line to use it for $8 per month plus $2 per hour. The Well was started by Stewart Brand and Larry Brilliant as a dial-up bulletin board system … Continue reading
Data, Information, Knowledge, Web
“Darwin spent five years sailing in a small boat, Galileo defied the Pope, and Madame Curie handled radioactive materials, all in pursuit of knowledge as the most profound of human goals. … Continue reading
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Only Connect: One in Five People Worldwide on Social Networks
According to eMarketer, there will be 1.43 billion social network users in 2012, a 19.2% increase over 2011.
The Web Oscarized
Today in 1997 was the first year of the annual Webby Award event, which was the first-ever nationally televised awards ceremony devoted to the Internet. 700 people attended the event at Bimbo’s Night Club in San Francisco. Also today, Queen Elizabeth … Continue reading
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The Story of Information 