‘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 narrow street in the northeast corner of town. It feels like a fittingly secluded home for the legacy of one of technology’s lost pioneers: Paul Otlet.

In 1934, Otlet sketched out plans for a global network of computers (or “electric telescopes,” as he called them) that would allow people to search and browse through millions of interlinked documents, images, audio and video files. He described how people would use the devices to send messages to one another, share files and even congregate in online social networks. He called the whole thing a “réseau,” which might be translated as “network” — or arguably, “web.”"

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 of Google and YouTube, of Amazon and Facebook, of the Drudge Report and the Obama campaign. Each breakthrough—network protocols, hypertext, the World Wide Web, the browser—inspired another as narrow-tied engineers, long-haired hackers, and other visionaries built the foundations for a world-changing technology.”

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 Archive’s earliest snapshots were in late 1996, so anything before that is extremely sparse. The videos, silly as they are, still represent valuable documentation of the early web.”

“When copies are free, you need to sell things which can not be copied.”

:-w          Our current leader speaks with forked tongue.

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. He pins down the key shortcomings of our dusty, pre-digital intellectual property laws, and reveals how bad laws beget bad code. Then, in an homage to cutting-edge artistry, he throws in some of the most hilarious remixes you’ve ever seen.”

“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

Ik heb de film nog niet gezien, maar de film, die een prijs won op het Sundance Festival, is naar verluidt anders dan wat de kijker hoopt vreest. Geen ranzige freakshow, geen exploitation. Zoo bevat geen beelden van seks met dieren, is daarentegen zelfs ‘mooi gefilmd, maar lijkt vooral zeer empathisch van opzet. En juist het opschorten van de voor de hand liggende veroordeling van het taboe bestialiteit – er is heus geen te kort aan veroordelingen van zo’n taboe – lijkt nu een zinnige film op te leveren. De drijfveren en de ethische en emotionele rationalisaties van deze mannen komt, nogmaals naar verluidt, op deze wijze naar voren. Tamelijk uniek. En zo kan de kijker uiteindelijk voor zichzelf verklaren waarom bestialiteit een taboe is.

Ik heb geen idee of de film ooit in Nederland zal worden uitgebracht.

Mijn favoriet Dana Stevens besprak de film voor Slate: Zoo’s lyrical reflection on bestiality. (Incluis een Slate Spoiler Special-podcast.) Meer recensies via Metacritics.

Within minutes, children figured out how to point and click. By the end of the day they were browsing. “Given access and opportunity,” observes O’Connor, “the children quickly taught themselves the rudiments of computer literacy.”" (via)

De Hole-in-the-Wall website.

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