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Back to The Future – Internet From 1969 to 2019
Celebrating 50 years of Internet, Here East organised three talks by Internet Pioneers Alan Kay, Peter Kirstein and Eva Pascoe – co-founder…
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Dot Org Internet domains secretly sold to Private Equity – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
On so many sides, in so many ways, the sale of .org is a tangled thicket of stakeholder unhappiness. There…
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Raised by Google – New show at arebytes Gallery
Sarah Selby Opening Thursday 5 December, 6-9pm Exhibition runs Friday 6 December 2019 – Sat 11 Jan 2020, open Tuesday…
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Happy birthday, internet – let’s make the next 50 years just as innovative
By Jim Boulton from Digital Archeology How do we define the birth of the internet? As an ambiguous, shifting entity,…
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Burn rate – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
One of my favorite moments in the 1996 sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun was when Dick (John Lithgow), the…
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Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
So can we stop now with the fantasy that data can be anonymized? Two things sparked this train of thought.…
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50 Years of the Internet by Plexal – Event
The internet’s turning 50. Come celebrate with Here East and Plexal. About this Event At 10.30pm on 29 October 1969,…
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I never paid for it in my life – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman
So Jaron Lanier is back, arguing that we should be paid for our data. He was last seen in net.wars…
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