the internet
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You Can Now Own The Internet With The Original Source Code Up For Auction As An NFT
In a move that has really come full-circle, you can now buy the original source code for the world wide web as an NFT. When Sir Tim Berners-Lee first birthed the internet back on January 1, 1983, he probably didn’t expect to be selling the original source code on whatever the heck a “blockchain” is…
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Adobe Flash Is Actually Going to Die This Time, For Real
Three years ago, long after the rise (and fall) of Flash, Adobe announced that its once-ubiquitous multimedia platform was finally going away. But Adobe never provided a specific date for when Flash would reach its end-of-life. Now we know: Adobe Flash is going to officially die on December 31, 2020.
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How American Corporations Are Policing Online Speech Worldwide
In the winter of 2010, a 19-year-old Moroccan man named Kacem Ghazzali logged into his email to find a message from Facebook informing him that a group he had created just a few days prior had been removed from the platform without explanation. The group, entitled “Jeunes pour la séparation entre Religion et Enseignement” (or…
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Desktops Now Less Popular Than Tablets In The US
Photo: David Davies (Flickr) The gadgets we use can be a good indicator of where our society is at today, and where it’s going in the future. And judging by numbers from a recent