Tag: the web
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The Trump administration’s erasure of federal data has put the Internet Archive in the spotlight. The organization, with its small but mighty team, is working to help save the world’s… more ›
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For over 600 years, innovations spawned new forms of entertainment. The printing press (invented around 1436) unleashed book publishing. Later, radio and movies (1895), TV (1927), and video games (1958)… more ›
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The modern office building near the harbor in Iceland’s capital, Reykjavik, is best known as the home of the Icelandic Phallological Museum, which displays 320 specimens of mammal penises. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/09/business/iceland-online-disinformation-identity-theft.html more ›
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After fifteen years of fighting to make the web safer and more accessible, the World Wide Web Foundation is shutting down. https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/30/world_wide_web_foundation_closes/ more ›
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The Internet Archive has lost a major legal battle—in a decision that could have a significant impact on the future of internet history. Today, the US Court of Appeals for… more ›
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Today marks my 15th year on Twitter—now X. I find myself reflecting on the future of publishing in the digital age. https://zakelfassi.com/blog/2024/2024-09-02-the-internets-creative-constraints-reclaiming-our-digital-legacy more ›
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It was the opening days of 2022, in the aftermath of a huge volcanic eruption, when Tonga went dark. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/09/what-lies-beneath-the-growing-threat-to-the-hidden-network-of-cables-that-power-the-internet more ›
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From left: Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic, left, and Daniela Amodei, co-founder and president of Anthropic; Aravind Srinivas, CEO, Perplexity; Ilya Sutskever; Elon Musk, co-founder of Tesla and SpaceX and owner… more ›
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As a result of book publishers successfully suing the Internet Archive (IA) last year, the free online library that strives to keep growing online access to books recently shrank by… more ›