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The_Androctonuson Leonard Kleinrock on what went wrong with the internet

Completed my MSc at KCL in August and my topic had to do with coming up with a solution for the issues being discussed here. I think I'll be attending this!

The_Androctonuson Leonard Kleinrock on what went wrong with the internet

For each person, it seems to be the first few years of using the internet for the first time in their lives.

The_Androctonuson Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments

https://old.reddit.com/

This is how I still browse the site. You can also disable subreddit theming in your preferences and you’ve got a much more lite version of the site like the old days.

The_Androctonuson Oh shit, my weekend project turned into an App Store Best New App (2018)

You should look at how old this all is. The app was released in 2015 and last updated over a year ago. The app climate has changed a lot over the past four years so take it with a grain of salt.

The_Androctonuson I Quit Social Media for a Year

I want to get into this. How do you read your books? I have a TON of PDFs but reading PDFs on an iPhone is really frustrating because of the way the Books app displays them. I have to constantly zoom in and out and pan around.

The_Androctonuson CERN 2019 WorldWideWeb Rebuild

Your link leads to a 404.

The_Androctonuson CERN 2019 WorldWideWeb Rebuild

The actual HTTP requests this browser makes seem to be going through a proxy somewhere which I'm guessing renders the page on the server using this legacy look and returns it to be displayed. I thought it was using ajax to load pages directly from whatever URL I typed.

I'm surprised this had no support for the <ol> tag because numbered lists aren't rendering.

Edit: yeah I just noticed how all the links on every page have the domain part changed to worldwideweb.cern.ch.

But damn I can't help but remember Newton's "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Tim BL did not invent URIs, TCP/IP, domain names, or hypertext. He simply figured out a brilliant way to combine all these things together. Satoshi Nakamoto did not invent hashing, proof-of-work, signatures, or any of the other cryptographic protocols that make Bitcoin possible. Likewise, he simply put all these different ideas together in a brilliant way.

The_Androctonuson CERN day 1: rebuilding the first web browser

Ironically, Tim BL mentions in his book "Weaving the Web" that when he first launched the web, nobody cared and people at CERN thought it was useless.