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AFK Insider: 12 Things You Didn't Know About Nii Quaynor
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African publication AFK Insider recently sat down with Africa’s ‘Father of the Internet,’ Nii Quaynor, to find out what we might not yet know about the 2013 Internet Hall of Fame inductee, and discovered 12 things that shed new light on his life and work. Most notably, the publication reports that...
MoreGuardian Podcast Series Explores UN Resolution Declaring Internet a Basic Human Right
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The Guardian’s ‘Chips with Everything’ podcast has launched a four-part series that explores the United Nation’s July resolution that considers Internet access to be a basic human right. The issue has been debated in the UN General Assembly going back as far as 2009, and finally passed last month...
MoreThe Building of a 'Permanent Web'
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Vint Cerf has been raising the alarm on a coming ‘digital dark ages’ for a while, and he now tells Wired in a recent interview that he and some of his fellow Internet pioneers are “...
MoreWikipedia Co-founder Jimmy Wales Tells Vice Why We Need a Free Internet
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The editor-in-chief of Vice Impact, Katherine Keating, recently sat down with Internet Hall of Fame inductee Jimmy Wales to talk about the role of civil society in "holding governments accountable for their actions and promoting individual liberties." In a compelling Q&A, Keating asks Wales if...
More113,000 Miles of Cable Power the U.S. Internet
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A map created by University of Wisconsin computer science professor Paul Barford, in conjunction with colleagues from the University of Wisconsin, Colgate University and network security firm Niksun, is the first of its kind to show all the long-distance fiber-optic cables that carry Internet data...
MoreOne Second on the Internet
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Ever wonder about the volume of communication the Internet enables? One designer, Steven Lewis, decided to bring this volume to life in a representative graphic that shows you that volume in 'One Second on...
MoreFrom the Internet's Founders, A Warning
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Looking back now, some of the Internet's founders wonder if they should have left guidance on how the network should "grow up," according to a recent interview by PRI with inductee David Clark and others. “We clearly couldn’t anticipate how big it was going to be,” Mr. Clark tells the publication...
MoreHow Railroad History Shaped Internet History
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“It’s no accident that Iowa, where the first transcontinental railroad began, is now home to a huge data-center industry,” writes Ingrid Burrington in...
MoreWhat Was the First Thing Sold on the Internet?
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As we head into the holiday shopping season, a new video from Shopify offers an interesting glimpse into e-commerce history. So, what was the first thing ever sold on the Internet?...
MoreWhy #AaronSwartzDay Matters
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Each year since his death in 2011, November 8 is celebrated online as #AaronSwartzDay, when countless tributes to this Internet Hall of Fame inductee are made across multiple digital platforms....
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