Take a trip back in time to the hey-day of the dot com boom, while also finding out what became of all the web 1.0 superstars.

The other week, an article written in 1995 by Clifford Stoll who – in short – could see no future for the internet, resurfaced.
While events obviously took a different course, Stoll’s words started me wondering about a world without an internet, and what our lives in 2010 might be like in the absence of [...]

Writing in 1995, Clifford Stoll outlines why he sees no future for the internet, quite simply, it’s all too difficult:
Consider today’s online world. The Usenet, a worldwide bulletin board, allows anyone to post messages across the nation. Your word gets out, leapfrogging editors and publishers. Every voice can be heard cheaply and instantly. The result? [...]

The expectation of complete online anonymity will become increasingly unsustainable as regulation, and steps to combat cyber-crime, intensify.
The truth of the matter is, the Internet is still in its Wild West phase. To a large extent, the law hasn’t yet shown up. Yet as more and more people move to town, that lawlessness is [...]

From tumblr to Gmail, eight vices of the internet age.

Ten rules and laws of the Internet. If I were to advise people not to believe everything they read or saw online, would anyone believe me?
First recorded in an article by Lori Robertson at FactCheck.org in 2008, this states: “The more exclamation points used in an email (or other posting), the more likely it [...]

Did You Know 4.0. While it’s easy to get your message out there, is anyone hearing it?
Convergence is everywhere. It’s easier than ever to reach a large audience, but harder than ever to really connect with it.

Via Drew McLellan.

The very first version of film resource the Internet Movie Database made its debut in 1990, at least a year before the release of the earliest web browsers:
You might wonder how it is possible for IMDb to be 19 since the first web browser wasn’t really available until 1991. Well, on October 17th in 1990 [...]

If – for some reason – you decided to print out all the data on the internet using an ink jet printer, the task would take about 3,800 years to complete. It would then take you 57,000 years to read – non-stop that is – all of that information.
That’s quite a feat, I’m thinking there [...]

Thanks to the endless range of attractions online, things like staring out the window into space and “killing time” have become a thing of the past, while mobile phones have rendered the concept of punctuality… quaint.
Before mobile phones, people actually had to keep their appointments and turn up to the pub on time. Texting [...]