Topic / internet

Early ARPANET Protocols

A dive into ARPANET's protocol hierarchy.

Exapting Technologies

Embracing, reusing, and remixing existing technologies to build new ones.

Taking Back Our User Accounts

Ethereum's decentralization of identity management for applications.

The Shopify Effect

Alex Danco on the role of friction = in D2C, consumerism, and shopping.

Bull Cases for Starlink

Byrne Hobart steps through 3 reasons to be excited about SpaceX's internet platform.

satellitemap.space

Visualizing the Starlink constellation.

The 1980s Dream of a Free and Borderless Virtual World

Phil Salin, Tim May, and the birth of the cypherpunk movement.

Intellectual Value

Esther Dyson's newsletter from 1994, on how intellectual property might work in the age of the internet.

Weekend Reading: A New Web, Future of Higher Ed, and a Ford Concept Car

A clean start for the web, unbundling education, and a retro-future concept car.

Owning Your Internet Property

Ben Thompson on owning your corner of the internet.

Annotating the Web with Memex

Memex is building a web annotation and bookmarking tool for the private, distributed web.

Privacy with Utility

Is internet privacy and personal data ownership making a resurgence with new technology?

Blogroll

Adding a blogroll of my favorite internet properties.

Dithering and Podcast Subscriptions

John Gruber and Ben Thompson's new show.

Memex

Why Alto?

Butler Lampson's memo to the Xerox leadership, requesting investment in the Alto computer.

Enter Ethernet

Bob Metcalfe's original schematic drawing of the ethernet spec.

RFC Reader

Browse and read RFCs.

Weekend Reading: Internet of Beefs, Company Culture, and Secular Cycles

Venkatesh Rao's theory of internet beef, the impacts of company culture, and Turchin's Secular Cycles.

Protocols, Not Platforms

The advantages of protocols as a path to greater freedom and innovation.

Venkatesh Rao on Waldenponding

The End of Friction

The impacts of the internet's removal of friction.