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Happy 50th birthday, Ethernet | APNIC Blog
Why has Ethernet endured as a ubiquitous data framing protocol over all these years?
Big Tech’s Biggest Bets (Or What It Takes to Build a Billion-User Platform)
Meta’s Reality Labs losses may be eye-watering, but such investments aren’t rare - and they’re looking increasingly essential to building (or disrupting) a billion user platform.
A Backup of Historical Proportions - CHM
Discover what surprises await in CHM's release of the Xerox PARC file system archive.
Will ChatGPT spark the next financial bubble? | by Michael F. Buckley | UX
Revolutionary technology will always be synonymous with a new way to get rich. With the current growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI), it is fair to say we are looking at another technology gold…
I Graduated Into The 2000 DotCom Crash, And It Was The Best Thing To Ever H
In retrospect the fact we were all day trading tech stocks from Stanford’s computer labs probably suggested it was a bit of a bubble, although eToys options did pay for two consecutive Spring Break…
The Rise and Fall of the Dot-Com Foosball Table | by Clive Thompson | Mar,
Back during the dot-com boom of the late 90s, if you visited one of the then-hot startups in San Francisco — or other major US cities like New York — there was an emerging workplace aesthetic. Ties…
The Day the Dotcom Bust Began. The lesson we still refuse to learn… | by Do
The Internet changed for me on the morning of January 10, 2000, when an editor from the New York Times called to ask if I could bang out an OpEd by that afternoon. I was thrilled. The culture of the…
The Original Apocalypse:. 5 Lessons from the Dot-Com Crash | by Jeff Fluhr
Startup lessons from the dotcom crash of 2000 are relevant again today in the midst of the current COVID-19 crisis.
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
It’s not just a phase.
The ‘Form’ Element Created the Modern Web. Was It a Big Mistake? | WIRED
A little HTML widget gave us all-powerful Amazon and Facebook. There's no closing Pandora's text box now.
Amazon and the Rise of ‘Luxury Surveillance’ - The Atlantic
Surveillance isn’t just imposed on people: Many of us buy into it willingly.
The Twisted Life of Clippy | Seattle Met
In the ’90s, Microsoft created a cartoon paperclip that it quickly retired. Its developers never imagined the virtual assistant would become a cultural icon.
DOC • A brief history of the numeric keypad
Picture the keypad of a telephone and calculator side by side. Can you see the subtle difference between the two without resorting to your smartphone? Don’t worry if you can’t recall the design. Most of us are so used to accepting the common interfaces that we tend to overlook th
Why are hyperlinks blue?
We took a deep dive into the history of interfaces and link designs over the years to track down the origin of the blue link we know today.
History of the Web: Part 1
Today I'm going to share twenty years of context on the web. We'll talk about how the web evolved into what we have today, and why it makes building web applications so hard in 2021.
Out of the Matrix: Early Days of the Web (1991)
30 years ago, the web emerged from the Matrix to change the world. But have we forgotten its original vision? Daniel Kehoe recalls the early days of the web.
How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades
U.S. and German intelligence agencies partnered on a scheme to dupe dozens of nations into buying rigged encryption systems — taking their money and stealing their secrets.
htop explained | peteris.rocks
Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux
I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb - VICE
While searching for the person who grifted me in Chicago, I discovered just how easy it is for users of the short-term rental platform to get exploited.
Council Post: 13 Tech Experts Predict The Next Big Trend In Software Develo
Members of Forbes Technology Council share their predictions for upcoming trends in software development.
Chernobyl DevOps: Software Engineering, Disaster Management, and Observability
Or at least, that’s the story that operators working for FirstEnergy in a power substation in Wadsworth, Ohio, just a few miles southwest of Akron, had in front of them. All systems seemed…