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BitTorrent at 25: The file-sharing protocol that shook Hollywood and changed the internet

The file-sharing app launched 25 years ago and unleashed a wave of piracy that would shake Hollywood to its core.

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theverge.com·Tech by Flipboard·15d ago·18 min read

rip.so: A Digital Graveyard Memorializing Lost Internet Services and Messengers

rip.so :: the digital graveyard. A memorial to messengers, social networks, browsers, gadgets and websites the internet forgot.

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rip.so·Hacker News: Front Page·2mo ago·12 min read

How I Acquired Friendster.com for $30,000 and My Plans for the Domain

I Bought Friendster for $30k — Here’s What I’m Doing With It Friendster was the first social network. It has a long history, but the website friendster.com went dead in 2015 and the company …

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ca98am79.medium.com·Hacker News: Front Page·2mo ago·5 min read

How Counter-Strike Map Credits Led to Email Harvesting and Forced Blackholing in 2002

How Counter-Strike map credits led to my email address being harvested by worms, and why I had to ask my ISP to blackhole it.

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johnsto.co.uk·Hacker News: Front Page·3mo ago·5 min read

UsenetArchives.com Requires Age Verification for Historical Usenet Content

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usenetarchives.com3mo ago

Publishers Blocking Internet Archive Threaten Web History Preservation

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eff.org3mo ago

RFC 3092: Official Etymology and History of Programming Metasyntactic Variables "Foo", "Bar", and "Foobar"

Approximately 212 RFCs so far, starting with RFC 269, contain the terms `foo', `bar', or `foobar' as metasyntactic variables without any proper explanation or definition. This document rectifies that deficiency. This memo provides information for the Inte

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datatracker.ietf.org5mo ago

A Guide to Telnet Servers and Text-Based Internet Destinations

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telnet.org5mo ago

Call for Submissions: Early 2000s Video Game Websites and Software for Digital Archive

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webdesignmuseum.org6mo ago

The Persistent Predictions of the Web's Demise: How 30 Years of Doomsaying Has Been Proven Wrong

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tedium.co8mo ago

The 1988 Morris Worm: How a Programming Experiment Infected 10% of the Early Internet

The Internet contracted worms a year before the World Wide Web was even a thing.

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tomshardware.com·Hacker News: Front Page·8mo ago·5 min read

example.fi Launches IRC Service: Internet Relay Chat Now Available

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example.fi8mo ago

1997 Internet Outage Caused by Human Error at Network Solutions

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archive.nytimes.com9mo ago

Remembering the Era of Personal Websites Before Social Media

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tttthis.com9mo ago

Internet Archive Reaches 1 Trillion Web Pages Preserved in Wayback Machine