‘The telegraph room at the original Mundaneum in Brussels. (Mundaneum)’ IHT, The web that time forgot: “On a fog-drizzled Monday afternoon, this fading medieval city feels like a forgotten place. Apart from the obligatory Gothic cathedral, there is not much to see here except for a tiny storefront museum called the Mundaneum, tucked down a [...]
Entries Tagged as 'internet'
How the Web Was Won. An Oral History of the Internet.
June 5th, 2008
The Founding Fathers: Leonard Kleinrock, Paul Baran, and Larry Roberts Vanity Fair, How the Web Was Won. An Oral History of the Internet: “Fifty years ago, in response to the surprise Soviet launch of Sputnik, the U.S. military set up the Advanced Research Projects Agency. It would become the cradle of connectivity, spawning the era [...]
Andy Baio: Flashback to the VHS-Era Web
March 18th, 2008
Waxy, Internet Power, Volume 1: Flashback to the VHS-Era Web: “Lately, I’ve started collecting old VHS tapes about the Internet from the early- to mid-1990s. While most of these are pretty corny — think Gabe and Max’s Internet Thing — they also inadvertently captured pieces of the web that don’t exist anywhere else. The Internet [...]
Kevin Kelly: The Technium
February 6th, 2008
Kevin Kelly, The Technium: “When copies are free, you need to sell things which can not be copied.”
Tags: culture · economics · internet · kevin kelly
Emoticons during wartime
December 5th, 2007
New Yorker, Emoticons during wartime: :-w Our current leader speaks with forked tongue.
Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law
November 13th, 2007
TED Talk: Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law “Larry Lessig gets TEDsters to their feet, whooping and whistling, following this elegant presentation of “three stories and an argument.” The Net’s most adored lawyer brings together John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights, and the “ASCAP cartel” to build a case for creative freedom. [...]
Tags: copyright · creative commons · culture · internet · keynote · larry lessig · ted · video
Deze reactie van een lezer
September 4th, 2007
“Deze reactie van een lezer is achteraf verwijderd, omdat deze in strijd was met onze huisregels.” Racistisch geweld tegen Angolees meisje. “[…] ik vind eigenlijk godverdomme dat ze IEDEREEN eens aan moeten pakken!! echt IEDEREEN!! […]“ Kunst(enaars) in de media
Tags: ad · art · geenstijl · gesundes volksempfinden · internet · racism · telegraaf
Cyberwar
June 4th, 2007
Bruce Schneier: “For it to be cyberwar, it must first be war. And in the 21st century, war will inevitably include cyberwar. “
Tags: bruce schneier · cyberwar · internet · security