Could global warming kill the Internet? Yup.
Barbarians at Gate 8. How cheap flights and ubiquitous communication have changed national identities.
Anyone remember Swatch internet time?
BBC risks overloading the internet. Not a headline from The Onion.
BBC risks overloading the internet. Not a headline from The Onion.
The web time forgot. How Paul Otlet, a Belgian, envisioned a steampunk ancestor of today's hypertext.
The web time forgot. How Paul Otlet, a Belgian, envisioned a steampunk ancestor of today’s hypertext.
Younger people revealing their private lives on the Internet, the biggest generation gap since the early days of rock and roll?
The Rise and Fall of the earliest “dot-com”. I feel old, I actually remember ClariNet.
The Rise and Fall of the earliest "dot-com". I feel old, I actually remember ClariNet.
Like the author, I’m from that same utopian generation that believed the internet would make the world a better place. I’m not so sure anymore.
Nice privacy-focused alternative to public DNS resolvers like Google or Quad9. No Logging and DNSSEC-enabled.
That explains my (lack of) search results on certain queries.
Cloudflare just announced their new public DNS service. I just switched to it and it’s incredibly fast. Faster than any other one I’ve tried, including Google.
“We’re looking at a fitness tracker hacking a smart speaker, a smart speaker hacking a thermostat, and the thermostat hacking the rest of the network.”
It’s a long one but well worth the read. Quite a story and also a warning to all those businesses pushing security work down the line.
Starting with Chrome 69, logging into a Google site will auto-log you into Chrome. Not a good move.
This is deeply representative of our times and of “influencer” culture.
First he was never for a moment, in all 27 years, bored. He was never lonely. He said that he felt almost the opposite of that. He said he felt utterly and intricately connected to everything else in the world. It was difficult for him to tell where his body ended, and the woods began. He said he felt this utter communion with nature and with the outside world.
In a world where people start thumbing phones in queues, trains and anywhere else they fear being alone with their thoughts, this would probably be torture. I'm not ready to head into the woods for 27 years but I increasingly enjoy being untethered from the grid.
Roughly 45 minutes into an online search for a vegetable peeler, I looked away from my screen to realize the kitchen had grown dark and the day turned to night. I thought to myself, this is a problem.
This feels exceedingly familiar.
A perfect summary of the current state of the internet and technology in general.
The first page of Google results are links to pages that have scraped other pages for information from other pages that have been scraped for information. All the sources seem to link back to one another. There is no origin. The photos on the page look weird. The hands are disfigured. There is no image credit.
