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Aaron • 2 cards
In late 1994, Time magazine explained why the internet would never go mainstream: “It was not designed for doing commerce, and it does not gracefully accommodate new arrivals.” Wow! Newsweek put the doubts more bluntly in a February 1995 headline: “The Internet? Bah!” The article was written by an astrophysicist and network expert, Cliff Stoll, who
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Berkman Briefing: Rip, Mix, and Burn - Lessig's Case for Building a Free Culture
Mary Bridgescyber.harvard.edu
Wires warp cyberspace in the same way wormholes warp physical space: the two points at opposite ends of a wire are, for informational purposes, the same point, even if they are on opposite sides of the planet. The cyberspace-warping power of wires, therefore, changes the geometry of the world of commerce and politics and ideas that we live in. The ... See more
Wired • Mother Earth Mother Board
the company focused on customizing the site for each visitor, just as Bezos had promised his original investors it would.
Brad Stone • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Obsessed with the aesthetic of this 1975 brochure on an early iteration of Fedwire
web 1.0
Keely Adler and • 4 cards
“The complex web of human interactions that thrived on the internet’s initial technological diversity is now corralled into globe-spanning data-extraction engines making huge fortunes for a tiny few.”
Maria Farrell • We Need to Rewild the Internet
central, corporate-controlled clearinghouses of news, messages, and other content.