BBS of the 1970s & 1980s, and the Internet & Web of the 1990s and early 2000s was largely decentralized.

Starting in the mid-2000s, a small group of big companies started to centralize the Internet & Web.

This is around when the label "Web 2.0" started to become popular.

#BBS#Internet#worldWideWeb

One of the reasons I still listen to @TWiT after all these years is to pick up on “nuggets.” Like this: TIL (via @pluralistic) a nonprofit called Calyx uses a provision in FCC spectrum licensing agreements to resell unlimited mobile bandwidth on the cheap, and with privacy built in. Hot damn! https://calyxinstitute.org/membership/internet #internet#tech #nonprofit#TIL#TodayILearned

> Pluralistic: China hacked Verizon, AT https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/07/foreseeable-outcomes/ by @pluralistic

Enabled by another of Bill Clinton's oh so brilliant moments.

#RepublicanLite #tech #communications#Internet

I was a huge fan of @mozilla@mozilla.social and #Firefox for years – to me, they always stood for #openness, #privacy, and a free #internet.

But ever since Laura Chambers took over, it feels like Mozilla is completely losing its way. 🤔

Instead of focusing on the #browser, they’re starting projects that have little to do with their core mission. Commercial partnerships are on the rise, and now they’re even shutting down their own #Mastodon instance. That was the perfect opportunity to push #decentralization and openness in the #Fediverse. 🌐

#Firefox used to be my go-to recommendation for privacy – but sadly, I can’t say that anymore. 😕

💬 Do you have any recommendations for a #browser on #macOS and #iOS that focuses on privacy, syncs easily, and is still customizable?

Missed this yesterday!

"The first two-network TCP/IP transmission was between the van and ARPANET on August 27, 1976; the van was parked next to Rossotti's (since 1956, officially the "Alpine Inn"), a well-known Portola Valley, California biker bar, and wires were run to one of the picnic tables."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_Radio_Van

via https://mastodon.social/@aka_pugs/113042496976107440

#arpanet #history #otd #internet#InternetHistory#InternetAge

Meanwhile #christians for #harris continued on the vast part of the #internet that is NOT broke/n.

From: @tchambers
https://indieweb.social/@tchambers/112951860858042687

"On August 6, 1991 [33 years ago], the first website was introduced to the world. [It] contained information about the World Wide Web Project. It launched at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, where it was created by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee."

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

Happy birthday, web!

Via https://www.npr.org/2021/08/06/1025554426/a-look-back-at-the-very-first-website-ever-launched-30-years-later

#WorldWideWeb#WWW#TheWeb #indieweb#FirstWebsite #internet #history#OTD

Association of Internet Researchers just published a intro to Mastodon video and is encouraging academics to get active on Mastodon.

#AoIR#Mastodon#Introduction#TwitterMigration @AoIR @admin1#Internet#Commodon#AcademicChatter#POL204

https://youtu.be/djepDsuZTeQ?si=o2sLErCfiueLGY3K