Internet

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• 11/5/19
  

  The Internet at 50: The future and “dissolving containers”

  by Harlan Lebo

  The internet has long been on a path of constant reinvention, with flux being the sole constant. The biggest question of all is: where will digital technology go next? 

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• 10/29/19
  

  The Internet at 50: The Night the Internet Was Born

  by Harlan Lebo

  If there was a single moment that would define the start of the technology that would become the internet – this was it: the future was born. 

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• 10/22/19
  

  The Internet At 50: How the Dot-Com Bubble Burst

  by Harlan Lebo

  As a cautionary tale and a business school lesson about irrational investor expectations, no modern example proved better than the dot-com bubble.

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• 10/15/19
  

  The Internet at 50: Four Steps in Transforming the Digital World

  by Harlan Lebo

  The internet may have been “born” in October 1969, but it then percolated for years as complex, near-impenetrable masses of data stored in computers around the world. Online technology would evolve for more than two decades before it would become practical for everyone to use. 

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• SOURCE: Time
  9/11/19
  

  How the Long History of Human Violence Explains Why the Internet Causes So Much Chaos

  by Mike Martin

  Why is there so much chaos? The history of violence offers one possible answer.

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• 3/10/19
  

  The Most Alarming Argument in Jill Lepore's These Truths

  by Walter G. Moss

  How technology has destablized our world and why there's still hope. 

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• SOURCE: The Daily Californian
  2/15/19
  

  Professor Juana María Rodríguez talks sex work’s history and the internet’s future

  Although this humanities research project might read to many as a niche project in a small ethnic studies department, its cultural, political and technological implications loom large.

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• 2/10/19
  

  Old Concepts for New Concerns: the Railroad, the Internet, and Government Regulation

  by Tom Wheeler

  "The principles underpinning the industrial era rules remain valid today, they simply need updating to reflect the capabilities of the new technology." writes the former FCC Chairman.

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• SOURCE: The Boston Globe
  4-23-18
  

  The Internet is the new Wheel of Fortune

  by Niall Ferguson

  Social media has democratized politics, but it can kill an individual's reputation in a nanosecond. 

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• SOURCE: WGBH
  1-11-16
  

  One of the Internet’s pioneers says he was inspired by his research into the Homestead Act of 1862

  It’s one reason he’s so worried about the Internet now.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  1-26-15
  

  Can the Internet be archived?

  by Jill Lepore

  What happens when your evidence vanishes by dinnertime?

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  3-10-14
  

  The Technologists' Siren Song

  by W. Patrick McCray

  Tech buzzwords are a tepid substitute for robust analysis and honest critique.

• SOURCE: AP
  5-20-13
  

  The Maya meet the Internet

  Researchers began decoding the glyphic language of the ancient Maya long ago, but the Internet is helping them finish the job and write the history of this enigmatic Mesoamerican civilization.For centuries, scholars understood little about Maya script beyond its elegant astronomical calculations and calendar. The Maya had dominated much of Central America and southern Mexico for 1,000 years before their civilization collapsed about 600 years before the Spaniards reached the New World....

• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  5-1-13
  

  World’s first website back online

  Content on the Internet is ephemeral. A website can be online one minute, and taken down the next. As permanent as we think our Internet footprints are, the Web is perpetually changing. Much of the early Internet has been lost.One very important webpage, however, has been rescued from history. Yesterday, European particle physics laboratory CERN returned the first ever Internet website to its rightful place on the Web.Originally created by CERN in 1992, the world’s first website invokes a time long past when pages were just plain text on a white background. There are no advertisements, no pictures, and certainly no video. It’s an entirely utilitarian site rendered in Times New Roman, the most default of fonts....

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• SOURCE: Special to HNN
  1-14-13
  

  Jim Cullen: Review of Andrew Piper's "Book Was There: Reading in Electronic Times" (Chicago, 2012)

  Jim Cullen, who teaches at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York, is a book review editor at HNN. His new book, Sensing the Past: Hollywood Stars and Historical Visions, has just been published by Oxford University Press. Cullen blogs at American History Now.

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• When Was The Internet Invented?

  by Daniel Mallia

  Al Gore didn't invent it (and didn't claim to).