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169 bookmarks by garrettc
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"What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else."
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Internet history for developers and the technically curious
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"On the face of things, we seem to be merely talking about text-based files, containing only the letters of the English Alphabet (and the occasional punctuation mark). On deeper inspection, of course, this isn't quite the case. What this site offers is a glimpse into the history of writers and artists bound by the 128 characters that the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) allowed them. The focus is on mid-1980's textfiles and the world as it was then, but even these files are sometime retooled 1960s and 1970s works, and offshoots of this culture exist to this day. "
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I first wrote about the Metaverse in 2018, and overhauled my thinking in a January 2020 update: The Metaverse: What It Is, Where to Find it, Who Will Build It, and Fortnite. Since then, a lot has happened. COVID-19 forced hundreds of millions into Zoomschool and remote work.
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"The Metaverse: What It Is, Where to Find it, Who Will Build It?"
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"This new edition depicts 464 cable systems and 1,245 landing stations that are currently active or under construction"
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"Fifteen years ago, four of us got together and posted The Cluetrain Manifesto which tried to explain what most businesses and much of the media were getting wrong about the Web. These New Clues come from two of the authors of that manifesto, and of the book that followed."
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Apollo 11, the JPEG, and yes, even the Roomba.
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“Interoperability” is the act of making a new product or service work with an existing product or service: modern civilization depends on the standards and practices that allow you to put any dish into a dishwasher or any USB charger into any car’s cigarette lighter. But interoperability is just the ante. For a really competitive,…
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Travel back in time to see what your favorite websites, operating systems, applicatons, and games used to look like. A huge gallery with lots of images showing older versions of technology.
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If you ever connected to the Internet before the 2000s, you probably remember how it sounded. But what do these sounds mean?
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"If you're building a web experience and want to stay fast, a performance budget can be critical. For success, embrace performance budgets and learn to live within them. Network & CPU limits on mobile can require asking hard questions like, "what is really important to my users?"
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"This document is for programmers who take one look at activitypub.rocks, click on through to the documentation, and can't make heads or tails of it."
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All the slides plus analysis.
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<blockquote> We periodically crawl the top sites on the web and record detailed information about fetched resources, used web platform APIs and features, and execution traces of each page. We then crunch and analyze this data to identify trends — learn more about our methodology. </blockquote>
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Here you will find a large collection of ASCII drawings and other related ASCII art images. Our collection of ASCII art is sorted into 539 categories based on different themes to help you find beautiful and inspiring typewrite art based on ASCII characters.
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"This file, jargon.txt, was maintained on MIT-AI for many years, before being published by Guy Steele and others as the Hacker's Dictionary. Many years after the original book went out of print, Eric Raymond picked it up, updated it and republished it as the New Hacker's Dictionary. Unfortunately, in the process, he essentially destroyed what held it together, in various ways: first, by changing its emphasis from Lisp-based to UNIX-based (blithely ignoring the distinctly anti-UNIX aspects of the LISP culture celebrated in the original); second, by watering down what was otherwise the fairly undiluted record of a single cultural group through this kind of mixing; and third, by adding in all sorts of terms which are "jargon" only in the sense that they're technical. This page, however, is pretty much the original, snarfed from MIT-AI around 1988"
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"In November, I was given the chance to create non-developer resources for Scuttlebutt. The goal for these would be to make Scuttlebutt understandable to folks who do not identify as “technical”, and to help communicate our culture to the rest of the world."
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Name your startup, side project, app idea, product, brand, and more.
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Web Design Museum exhibits over 900 unique designs from the years 1995 to 2005. Discover forgotten trends in web design.
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"When you have rising monetization, rising growth and rising data collection, it drives a lot of regulatory scrutiny whether it’s related to data privacy, competition or safety in content."
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Threats to users’ privacy and security are growing. At Mozilla, we closely track these threats. We believe we have a duty to do everything we can to protect Firefox users and their data. We’re taking on the companies and organizations that want to secretly collect and sell user data.
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Nineteen-ninety-eight changed the course of technology, which is to say that it changed the course of history. A nearly bankrupt relic of ’80s tech nostalgia released a gumdrop-shaped PC called the iMac.
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Samantha Lynn weighs in on 20 years of ALA, 350 articles, and how far we’ve come as an industry.
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"While the value that Strava the social network provides me is undeniable, Strava creates another construct. The humans who choose to be there are bound together by a shared purpose that I see each time I ride my bike. I often stop at the side of the road and get off my bike for a quick drink or bite. As other bikers pass, it is normal for total strangers to stop their ride and ask, “Hey are you ok?” See, Strava built a village."
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Mozilla's Internet Health Report is about the human experience of the Internet.
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Over the last 25 years, the web has grown from a simple idea to the most important technological breakthrough of our time.
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Akamai publishes the quarterly 'State of the Internet' report. See the data gathered, including cyber attacks, connection speeds, mobile usage & more.
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"In the last 10 years, dConstruct has presented 3390 minutes of insightful thinking from the brightest minds in the digital design industry…"
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What's helping (and what's hurting) our largest shared global resource
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The 2017 update of our Digital Nation infographic gathers together the facts and stats about non, limited and engaged users of the internet in the United Kingdom. It looks at a range of areas including the barriers to getting online and the benefits to those who develop digital skills and fully embrace the digital world.
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15-year Flash game developer. • Developed over a 100 flash games, culminating in plays into the billions… including Achievement. Unlocked, This is the Only ...
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"COACH will help walk you through locking down your online identity step-by-step, and give you direct links to tools and websites that will help you secure yourself. While this process is by no means comprehensive, it can serve as a good starting point for a basic digital security and self-defense."
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A curated list of 30 community case studies and what you can learn from each.
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