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The Internet Turns 40 Today

After much work, the first two nodes of what would become the ARPANET were interconnected between UCLA’s School of Engineering and Applied Science and SRI International (SRI) in Menlo Park, California, on October 29, 1969. The ARPANET was one of the “eve” networks of today’s Internet. Following on from the demonstration that packet switching worked on the ARPANET, the British Post Office, Telenet, DATAPAC and TRANSPAC collaborated to create the first international packet-switched network service.

Via Wikipedia.

0 comments October 29th, 2009
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What If The Internocalypse Were Tomorrow?

Imagine a, hopefully very distant, future without internet. What would keep our ADD suffering procrastination be kept busy with in those days?

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The team behind Cracked.com went ahead and crowdsourced the question with a hefty $50 price for the winner of the Photoshop contest. If you get all pics posted below, probably it is time to step away from the internet.

Do it, you know you want to. Read more

0 comments October 22nd, 2009
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They Shoot Stars

They Shoot Stars, an essay about the American porn industry and the impact of the online, download culture on the industry.

Three years ago, Powers shot four to five movies a week. Nowadays, he’s lucky if he shoots two a week. Like many other businessmen, he’s been forced to cut corners. Ergo, the “life support system for a penis” of yesteryear has been replaced by the lower maintenance RoboCock.

“We got rid of the male talent!” Powers crows, triumphant. He enumerates the benefits of working with an animatronic phallus on one hand. “They don’t complain as much. They’re always hard. You don’t have to feed them.” Of course, the 21st century woodsman does have one drawback. “They’ve always got bolts falling off,” Powers admits with a shrug

But there is also literature in the essay. Read more

0 comments October 13th, 2009
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Under Construction

Under Construction images, a reminiscent of the soon to be closed Geocities.
Update: The first Under Construction gif and story of first animated gifs directory on tinternetz.

0 comments October 10th, 2009
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What the internet knows about you

This one is just based on sniffing what links you recently have visited, the internet does know more. Still interesting though.
Before you freak out, there’s a page ‘How does it work’, k.

0 comments September 4th, 2009
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Internet memes since 1970 or since the creation of the internet

Some might be missing but if internet memes are your thing you will have lots of fun with this list.

Hopefully this timeline will continued to be update on a regular basis.

0 comments July 30th, 2009
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Nicolas Sarkozy googlebombed a$$hole of the internet

Googlebombs are nothing new anymore, both Bush and Obama became the victim of miserable failures. Today, French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been googlebombed ‘trou du cul du web’. The (French) online community certainly does not appreciate the HADOPi law.

Nicholas Sarkozy asshole of the internet

0 comments July 24th, 2009
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You know you’ve lost it to the internet

9 8 Things defining whether you’ve lost it to the internet or not.
Update: Apparently the entry has been deleted, so here we go with the feedcache. Read more

0 comments June 16th, 2009
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