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Tag Archives: internet
Wikipedia’s Hostility to Women
Some female editors have been the target of harassment from their male colleagues—and the gender bias has spilled over into the site’s content, too.
Source: Wikipedia’s Hostility to Women
The Internet’s Dark Ages
The web, as it appears at any one moment, is a phantasmagoria. It’s not a place in any reliable sense of the word. It is not a repository. It is not a library. It is a constantly changing patchwork of perpetual nowness.
You can’t count on the web, okay? It’s unstable. You have to know this.
Source: The Internet’s Dark Ages
If you could print out the whole Internet, how many pages would it be? – The Washington Post
The number of pages it would take to print the Internet = 305.5 billion
Source: If you could print out the whole Internet, how many pages would it be? – The Washington Post
On HTML5 and the Group That Rules the Web
You might have read that, on October 28th, W3C officially recommended HTML5. And you might know that this has something to do with apps and the Web. The question is: Does this concern you?
The answer, at least for citizens of the Internet, is yes: it is worth understanding both what HTML5 is and who controls the W3C. And it is worth knowing a little bit about the mysterious, conflict-driven cultural process whereby HTML5 became a “recommendation.†Billions of humans will use the Web over the next decade, yet not many of those people are in a position to define what is “the Web†and what isn’t. The W3C is in that position. So who is in this cabal? What is it up to? Who writes the checks?