Tag Archives: Internet

Ever wondered how the Internet travels across the Oceans? Check this interactive map

Posted on January 4, 2018 by Stefano

Travelling around the seven seas may seem too inadequate these days. The guys at TeleGeography charted the Internet undersea cable courses with incredible detail – and depicting the whole map as an Indiana Jones journal! Image source: TeleGeography According to … Continue reading →

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Happy #InternautDay: World Wide Web turns 25!

Posted on August 23, 2016 by Stefano

Happy 25th birthday World Wide Web! Well, actually, as reported here, Sir Tim Berners-Lee submitted on March 9th 1991 a draft of WWW/HTTP to his boss, Mike Sendall, who was not really excited about it… On August 6th the very … Continue reading →

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Enter HIP – Human IP address: the Internet of Human Beings

Posted on September 24, 2015 by Stefano

A recent Forbes story has sparkled speculations about IP addresses being assigned to each and every human being. Besides the Science-Fiction scenario, it seems logical to assign to all living human beings an IP address hence bypassing any further IDs, … Continue reading →

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May 26th 1995: Bill Gates writes about the “Internet Tidal Wave”

Posted on May 26, 2015 by Stefano

20 years have gone since this internal memo, aimed at Microsoft Executives, in which Bill Gates himself talked about the “Internet Tidal Wave” and provided a strategic point of view for a MS-dominated ‘Net; the memo surfaced during the prolonged … Continue reading →

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A pocketful of early Internet Service Providers greeting packs from 1994.

Posted on March 1, 2015 by Stefano

Digging in my vintage-computer mess, I found this pack from Xmas 1994 – labelled Software ETC.   I barely reminded that a long-time friend, Claudio, brought me this stuff from a trip in the USA – where early Internet was … Continue reading →

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BitCloud: a new internet infrastructure from Bitcoin creators

Posted on January 30, 2014 by Stefano

Decentralized internet? A more user-centric network? This is what some Bitcoin creators are trying to model… “We will have to start by decentralizing the current Internet, and then we can create a new Internet to replace it.” Called Bitcloud, they … Continue reading →

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2013: IEEE estimates some 11 billion devices connected to the Internet

Posted on November 25, 2013 by Stefano

As of today, there are 10.95 billion devices connected to the Internet. Compare that with only 500 million connected devices 6 years ago (back in 2007). [Source: IEEE.org]

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The future and Internet as seen in a video from 1969

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Stefano

Take a look at this video, it may seem too similar to today’s life even if some tools are quite… funny. Nevertheless, in 1969 they thought about: flat-screen monitors, some sort of writing recognition, multi-monitor setups and… (yes) a global … Continue reading →

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USA house life 2.0: Internet is perceived as a basic utility, a research report says.

Posted on January 14, 2012 by Stefano

Americans probably can’t unplug themselves these days from Internet – sort of. What is Internet like in everyday life in the USA? What has become Internet connection within households – and mobile too? Here comes a pretty interesting research that … Continue reading →

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Google story, 1996-2011: a six-minutes video unfolds 15 years of development of one of the biggest company ever

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Stefano

Ok, six minutes are too little to explain what really happened in the past 15 years – especially when it comes to Google! (The image right shows Google’s very first search page, for those who are too young.) I do … Continue reading →

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