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The Mundaneum Museum Honors the First Concept of the World Wide Web - NYTimes.com
Paul Otlet, who in 1934 created the design for a lower-tech version of the Internet. Here's an excerpt:
Although Otlet’s proto-Web relied on a patchwork of analog technologies like index cards and telegraph machines, it nonetheless anticipated the hyperlinked structure of today’s Web. “This was a Steampunk version of hypertext,” said Kevin Kelly, former editor of Wired, who is writing a book about the future of technology.
Otlet’s vision hinged on the idea of a networked machine that joined documents using symbolic links. While that notion may seem obvious today, in 1934 it marked a conceptual breakthrough. Paul Otlet, who in 1934 created the design for a lower-tech version of the Internet. Here's an excerpt: ... more -
Analog celluar signal to die today
Sorry Zack Morris, your giant brick of a cell phone won't work anymore after tonight. That's because the biggest U.S. mobile operators, AT&T Wireless and Verizon Wireless, will close down their analog networks forever on Monday.
The analog networks, which were first deployed in the 1980s and brought cellular service to millions of Americans, will finally disappear behind the digital networks that serve almost all mobile phones in use today.
"We're talking about a very, very small number of customers here," said AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel. He estimated that 99.9 percent of AT&T's traffic is carried on GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications). Verizon spokeswoman Debra Lewis estimated that less than 1 percent of that carrier's subscribers were on analog even before it started a big effort to reach them last year. Neither gave exact numbers of subscribers. But given that those operators have about 60 million subscribers each, the number might still be in the hundreds of thousands. Sorry Zack Morris, your giant brick of a cell phone won't work anymore after tonight. That's because the biggest U.S. mobil... more -
Analog TV Death Clock
Analog Television will die in 413 days. Are you prepared to make the transition to digital?
Why not check out the official website of the TV Converter Program and prepare yourself, and your television, for the Y2K-esque madness of the Y2K9 digital takeover.
And hey, they have free $40 coupons to buy a converter box. So if anything, go get some free money! Analog Television will die in 413 days. Are you prepared to make the transition to digital? ... more -
High-Tech Trash
People have always been proficient at making trash. Future archaeologists will note that at the tail end of the 20th century, a new, noxious kind of clutter exploded across the landscape: the digital detritus that has come to be called e-waste. People have always been proficient at making trash. Future archaeologists will note that at the tail end of the 20th century, a new, n... more
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My Friends Are Cosmonauts
"My Friends Are Cosmonauts" by Eiafuawn Directed by Troy Kooper
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