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Internet Growth Terminology

https://www.mit.edu/~mkgray/net/terminology.html

a whole bunch of computers connected together by wires which they can talk over. Now, the wires that we're interested in connect to something inside the computer called a network

Articles - The Cyberix Network

http://cy-x.net/articles?id=10

promised a future where computers would get faster, more efficient, and easier to use.... Read More Digital Cargo Cult: How Zoomers Ruined Old Internet Nostalgia Published: August

IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: November 14th, 2008

http://techrights.org/o/2008/11/15/irc-log-14112008/

MinceR well, crApple "computers" are usually bought as room ornaments for gay people Nov 14 17:36 PetoKraus well nice... is there anything he could do? Nov 14 17:36 schestowitz Th
IRC Log for November 14th, 2008

I was wrong. CRDTs are the future

https://josephg.com/blog/crdts-are-the-future/

with my data, on my computers. Its about time my software reflected that relationship. I want my laptop and my phone to share my files over my wifi. Not by uploading all my data t

Home | Neil's blog

https://neilzone.co.uk/

I find joyful about computers and the Internet in 2024 Published on 2024-10-22 08:38:31 by Neil Brown Configuring dovecot as a separate mail server for encrypted email storage, an

School Will Never End: On Infantilization in Digital Environments - Amplifying Empowerment or Propagating Stupidity?

http://sigwait.tk/~alex/doc/bunz%2Cmercedes__school-will-never-end/

Ever since personal computers had become mainstream, designers had tried to give them an air of being friendly and fun. Apple’s appeal to non-technical people was intentionally fo

About the Oldternet Homepage

http://www.geocities.ws/oldternet/about.htm

got Internet-connected computers, and had a massive stack of floppies to keep my art and other stuff on. When I got a computer of my own, years later, I got rolling on making as m

Software and its Discontents, Part 2: An Explosion of Complexity | Kellan Elliott-McCrea: Blog

https://laughingmeme.org/2023/01/23/software-and-its-discontents-part-2-complexity.html

is nearly miraculous, computers are so damn fast and cheap these days, the quality of resources, much of it free, is off the charts, and the talent pool has exploded, and shows ev
This is part 2 in my “Software and its Discontents” series. This series is the product of my asking a bunch of folks about the current state of software engineering, the sense

How You Are Reading This Page

https://sheep.horse/2017/10/how_you_are_reading_this_page.html

these devices are just computers in disguise. displays the new page for you to read. But how does that work? What happens to get a web page from wherever they are stored to your e
We use the Internet every day and most of us take it for granted that you click on a link and your computer displays the new page for you to...

Review of The Shallows

http://www.chris-winter.com/Erudition/Reviews/Anthropo/Carr_N/Shallows.html

them is that personal computers and networked communications have fostered a culture which devalues memory, introspection and intellectual rigor while promoting the quick, superfi
A review of The Shallows by Nicholas Carr

Adobe Flash and JavaScript

https://jacobwsmith.xyz/stories/javascript.html

ever done, sell cheap computers only capable of running your most popular program that already has thousands of developers working on it. Now of course Chromebooks aren't the only

Getting Windows 3.1x ready for the present and (near) future 1/3

http://stephan.win31.de/w31mm_en.htm#n_gen_arb_sp

often. However, many computers (mostly without access to the 'net, which explains the low number of Win 3.1x users on the 'net) still run with this very GUI on top of MS-DOS, PC-D
The translated version of a page in German. Written with Netscape 4.08[de] (Win16; I) :).


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