🆕 blog! “The new .zip TLD is going to cause some problems”
Many years ago, Google applied for the .zip Top Level Domain. ICAAN, in its infinite wisdom, granted it. And now, I think, bad things are going to happen. You see computers try to be helpful. They see you wrote "visit example.com" and autolink the thing which looks like a domain name. That's handy - especi…
#historisch gezien is dit niets nieuws, want onze #voorouders deden dat al. De #trend om altijd de 'laatste mode' te volgen bestaat eigenlijk pas een ...(2)
"The #OnlineNewsAct endangers the Internet at a time when we need this critical resource the most.Parliament must reverse course and withdraw the bill, before the Internet as we know it slips out of our hands." - Natalie Campbell in The Hill Times
Article:
"The Online News Act will make the Internet less open and secure for all Canadians"
Thank you to Reuters news service reporter Carey Biron who spoke to me and broadband-for-all titans (Jim Baller & Gigi Sohn) for this story on the debate around municipal #broadband and other forms of publicly-owned, locally-controlled high-speed #Internet networks.
The community broadband #movement is really starting to gain momentum
「 Berners-Lee eventually convinced CERN to release the World Wide Web into the public domain without any patents or fees. He has since attributed the runaway success of the web to that single decision 」
— @NPR
"Somehow, I have been instrumentalized by the internet, which operates me through my phone. It often feels like the internet is reading my mind."
A beautifully-written piece by #MerrittTierce that traces the not-quite-serendipity of connection through the internet, and shows how the internet mediates our relationships - to each other, and with the internet itself.
Is there a website in the Netherlands that I can see which sites are blocked by law or something? Or at least search for a specific domain name and get a result saying whether it is blocked or not?
Surveys that ask you if you would like to complete the survey before letting you continue on to the actual survey are so weird. Like... I can always just close my browser, you know. #Tech#Technology#Internet#Survey
Increasingly feels unbelievably lucky that I grew up in the narrow period of time when you could consistently find true and useful material on the internet just by typing an obvious query into a search engine
Got just over an hour to spare? Want to learn way, way more about #modems in the 90’s, and how people got around managing both #voice and #data calls without hanging up your #internet connection and getting mad? You do? Me too. Well then.
Even the baddest of LimeWire and KaZaA spywares could have only dreamt of being as nasty as today's genuine operating systems and browsers are straight out of the box - and people even pay to get them!
😎 Провів робочий дзвінок з 22:30 до 23:30 й людина в Україні, обговорювали проведення великої події щодо стійкості українського інтернету під час війни
Seems like a good day for a reminder of how quick studios are to screw over writers. In 1999, NBC moved a series from their regular network to Sci Fi Channel. My pay went from $240,000 to $0. Because my contract paid "per broadcast episode" instead of just "per episode."