The Internet from Rocks — A High Level Explanation of Computers and the Internet
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The Internet from Rocks — A High Level Explanation of Computers and the Internet
I’ve recently begun to visit the internet. There, I’ve found cement, metal gates, water tanks, miles of solar farms, buzzing wires, fiber optic trenches, and towers. Data centers, often hidden from the everyday ‘user,’ house rows of blinking servers containing the vast contents of our digital lives. Inside these electronics lie conductive materials... See more
Kelley O’Leary • Elemental Internet
If Web 1.0 was about information discovery, Web 2.0, now retroactively named web2, was all about people discovery, aka social networking. Web 2.0 became about integrating the internet with our daily lives. The gap between your online and offline selves began to close. More and more of our life would be mediated through the internet, from ordering p... See more
Emily Gorcenski • The Myth of Decentralization and Lies about Web 2.0 · EmilyGorcenski.com
Before the Web’s arrival, scientists lacked the tools needed to understand how networks functioned in the real world. Their main instrument had been graph theory, which views networks as a system of interconnected nodes and edges.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
network. In effect, the web was an infinite database, a sort of crazily expanding universe of human knowledge that, in theory, could hold every insight, thought, image, and product for sale.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
The Internet is the technological equivalent of the energy web. They are both systems where we have instant connectivity and access to all information, where we are all plugged into the whole.
John Kehoe • Quantum Warrior | The Future of the Mind
The early days of the World Wide Web, which now bears the retronym Web 1.0, gave us a promise of a decentralized and democratized way of sharing information. Web 1.0 was truly revolutionary; it stood in stark contrast to any other information sharing mechanism in all of human history. The idea was simple: people who held information could make that... See more
Emily Gorcenski • The Myth of Decentralization and Lies about Web 2.0 · EmilyGorcenski.com
7. On the internet, the past is a black hole sucking the future into itself.
