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20 Years After the Raid: How The Pirate Bay Survived and Endured

The article recounts the 20-year anniversary of the 2006 police raid on The Pirate Bay, when 65 Swedish officers stormed a Stockholm data center expecting to shut down the site permanently. Instead, the raid inadvertently made the site more resilient and iconic. The article explo

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torrentfreak.com·Hacker News: Front Page·7h ago·6 min read

The Internet Isn't Dying — Its Commercial Veneer Is

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Terry Godier1d ago

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

A memorial website (rip.so) that catalogs and mourns discontinued digital services, focusing on messaging platforms like ICQ (1996-2024) and MSN Messenger (1999-2014). The article reflects on the cultural impact of these early internet communication tools, highlighting how they shaped online identities and social interactions before modern messaging apps too

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rip.so1mo ago

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

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ca98am79.medium.com1mo ago

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

The author recounts a personal story from 2002 about how his email address ([email protected]) was harvested by worms due to being credited in Counter-Strike map files, leading to massive spam volumes that threatened his broadband account termination. He had to ask his ISP to blackhole his primary email address to prevent the account from being shut down, hi

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johnsto.co.uk1mo ago

UsenetArchives.com Requires Age Verification for Historical Usenet Content

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usenetarchives.com1mo ago

Publishers Blocking Internet Archive Threaten Web History Preservation

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eff.org2mo ago

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

This RFC (Request for Comments) document provides the official etymology and history of the metasyntactic variables 'foo', 'bar', and 'foobar' commonly used in programming and technical documentation. It traces their origins from military slang (FUBAR) through comic strips (Smoke

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datatracker.ietf.org·Hacker News: Front Page·3mo ago·24 min read

A Guide to Telnet Servers and Text-Based Internet Destinations

The article provides a curated list of telnet servers and interesting destinations for accessing text-based internet resources. It includes both currently available servers and nostalgic mentions of notable servers that are no longer online, with brief commentary on their feature

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telnet.org·Hacker News: Front Page·4mo ago·1 min read

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

The article is a call for submissions to an online museum archive, specifically asking readers to share information about old video game websites, apps, or software from the early 2000s. It invites people to submit names or links of interesting old digital artifacts related to vi

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webdesignmuseum.org·Hacker News: Front Page·4mo ago·1 min read

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

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tedium.co6mo ago

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

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tomshardware.com6mo ago

Project Xanadu: The Alternative Internet Vision That Never Was

This article is a review contest finalist examining Project Xanadu, Ted Nelson's visionary alternative to the modern internet that was conceived in the 1960s. The piece explores how Xanadu proposed a fundamentally different architecture for digital information - one based on tran

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astralcodexten.com·Hacker News: Front Page·8mo ago·34 min read

Google's goo.gl URL Shortener Shutdown and the Fight Against Link Rot

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jszym.com9mo ago