Tag Archives: Internet
The end of the American Internet
The U.S. government’s agreement with ICANN expired on Sept. 29, meaning that America has more or less given up control of the network its universities and military created.
I think this is worth noting, at least in passing. It’s not every day that most of us think about the massive network that our precious World Wide [...]
Bill Keller on NPR
Amid a consensus that journalism has been transformed by the Web and with many newspapers around the country failing, NPR interviews the editor of one of the biggest and most famed papers in America, the New York Times.
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A “hypertext”
In the midst of collecting Web links to accompany one of my upcoming articles, I came across this page, still hosted somewhere in the depths of MSU’s oldest servers.
This “hypertext” in glacial geology dates back to 1999, when students in Geology 445 — Glacial Geology created the site. The date at the top of the [...]
A decade of Google
It was about this time of the year in 2000, the heady days before 9/11, before downloading .mp3s was really illegal. I was just starting college and having my first real experiences with fast Internet service.
Michael Becker has been blogging about academia, digital culture and journalism since 2005. He is the Web editor of the
Why Dave Winer stopped worrying and learned to love the Fail Whale