stefan, to internet
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online avatar

Hm, I guess the internet was a good idea after all.

"The study analysed data from two million individuals aged 15 to 99 in 168 countries, including Latin America, Asia, and Africa and found internet access and use was consistently associated with positive wellbeing."

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-05-14-internet-use-statistically-associated-higher-wellbeing-finds-new-global-oxford-study

#internet #TheWeb #study

stefan, to internet
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online avatar
stefan, (edited ) to internet
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online avatar

The web can be such a small world sometimes. Has this ever happened to you?

You look up an answer to a question you have, or come across someone's fun side project, look at the author, and -- hey, that's a friend of mine!

stefan, to internet
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online avatar

Truly an assault on the internet we've all helped build.

#IndieWeb #internet #TheWeb #ai #llms #capitalism #enshittificaton

stefan, to internet
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online avatar

"Perhaps the platform era caused us to lose track of what a Web site was for. The good ones are places you might turn to several times per day or per week for a select batch of content that pointedly is not everything."

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-revenge-of-the-home-page

#internet #TheWeb

stefan, to history
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online avatar

"On 30 April 1993 CERN issued a public statement stating that the three components of Web software (the basic line-mode client, the basic server and the library of common code) were put in the Public Domain [...]"

https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web/licensing-web

https://cds.cern.ch/record/1164399/

Full text: https://genius.com/Cern-statement-concerning-cern-w-3-software-release-into-public-domain-annotated

#OTD #history #internet #TheWeb #tech #computers #PublicDomain

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