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The Internet’s Black Holes by Reporters without Borders

20 August 2010
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Where on earth can data roam free, and where is it filtered, controlled, and contained? Where are the black holes of information flow on the Internet?
According to Reporters without Borders, the Internet’s “Black Holes” are Belarus, Burma, China, Cuba, Iran, Libya, Maldives, Nepal, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam. How do [...]

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Facebook: By the Numbers

5 July 2010
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The numbers behind the Facebook phenomenon are staggering. Users spend 500 million minutes per month on the site. Seventy different languages are used on Facebook. As of December 2000, there were an estimated 361 million users on the Internet; as of 2010, Facebook alone has 400 million users. As of this writing, the Facebook user [...]

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Is the Internet Remaking Us? Part II

29 June 2010
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Does the Internet make us smarter or dumber?
@smalljones dug up the following news articles in response to a discussion on this topic that will be held in our department this Friday afternoon. It is pure coincidence that the topic of the discussion is whether or not the Internet is remaking us — a topic [...]

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Is the Internet Remaking Us?

29 June 2010
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“We wonder, as the sum of all our knowledge and memories is uploaded, converted into bits, tagged and indexed, are we sacrificing what makes us human? Or evolving what it means to be human?” Jordan Clarke asks in his animation below, entitled Internet. The tagline for the animation is that it is “a visual metaphor [...]

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A History of the Internet

4 February 2010
A History of the Internet, c. 1957-2009.

The following animation is a concise, high-level technical history of the Internet, c. 1957-2009. This ~8 minute animation covers its early development and concepts, including the creation of the commercial, military, and scientific networks. This history describes how the politics of the times, such as the Cold War, influenced the decentralized, distributed design and development [...]

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