Mask misinformation

12.10.2020

— How a bizarre claim about masks has lived on for months, Olga Khazan in The Atlantic

The Internet Is For End Users

05.10.2020

— The Internet Is For End Users, Mark Nottingham in Internet Architecture Board RFCs

@fat - Internet Historian

05.05.2016

Rives TED Talk If you take a listen to Rives’ great TED talk from 2006 today, it’s pretty easy to see it as a little time capsule. Here he is talking (eloquently and entertainingly) about Napster and Friendster. What was, at the time, a piece of pop culture criticism and entertainment, is just as easily viewed as artefact of an era in the internet history. The internet moves fast, look at how quickly we moved from the bullshit-ly labelled Internet 1.0, to Internet 2.0, to deciding that numbering eras of the internet like that is stupid. That’s how a talk...