Tag: Internet history
As AI and megaplatforms take over, the hyperlinks that built the web may face extinction
Links have been essential tools for navigating the web and sourcing information – but they are on the decline as tech companies try to keep audiences from clicking away.
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17 Nov, 08:00 PM
The internet is worse than it used to be. How did we get here, and can we go back?
In the early days the internet was a free, egalitarian space for anyone to surf. Now, commercial interests rule – but users do still have some control.
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16 Sep, 09:00 PM
30 years of the web down under: how Australians made the early internet their own
What did Australians do online in the 1990s? Shared bioinformatics data, made cyberfeminist zines, cruised the information superhighway …
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22 Sep, 02:00 AM
