Tag: infrastructure
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Dead Media and The Wayback Machine: ‘I Should Have Gone With .org’
In 1995, Bruce Sterling and Rudy Rucker announced the Dead Media project, looking ahead (after a bit less than 5 years of public Websites) to the inevitable moment when the Web itself would become a dead medium. Think of it this way. How long will it be before the much-touted World Wide Web interface is…
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From Domain Hijacking to Offshore Digital Casino: My Blog Goes Cyberpunk
I first registered JoeLamantia.com in 2001. It was not serving an educational institution, or a military organization, or offering technical infrastructure, and obviously not a digital government site, so I chose the .com top-level suffix, meant for a general purpose Web presence. I’d founded a startup at the same time: an Asia-Pacific B2B marketplace for…