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The importance of porn
Database, Gotfried. K, Published on 01/09/2010
» The Internet owes a lot to porn, whether we care to admit it or not. Without porn driving growth and web technologies (picture formats, file-sharing, and so on), the Internet probably wouldn't be what it is today. In the early days, trading pornographic pictures occupied much of the Internet's time and effort. Even before the Internet, there were BBSs full of porn for the downloading.
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Half a century of frustration
Database, Gotfried. K, Published on 07/07/2010
» Computers are incredibly annoying, which is odd because operating systems got their start back in the 1950s. That's right: more than 50 years ago! More than 50 years of "development" and my personal computer (running a legal copy of Windows XP) still crashes. Still!
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Internet Site of the week
Database, Gotfried. K, Published on 28/04/2010
» It had to end and a victor had to emerge. We’re talking about the Browser War that raged across the computer landscape back in the early 1990s. When the Internet first came to prominence, it was very much because of the Netscape browser, which made “surfing the Web†a far less complicated affair than it had been previously.
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Up to their old tricks
Database, Gotfried. K, Published on 21/04/2010
» It happened again. I was innocently browsing the web the other day and Microsoft Corp, from its cushy offices in Redmond, California, reached out across the web and threw a glass of cold water in my face.
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Twitter - paddling in a toilet bowl of vomit
Database, Gotfried. K, Published on 24/03/2010
» I should caution the reader at the outset that Twitter is, in the words of one of my dear online friends (read: complete stranger), "a toilet bowl of vomit". There are many ways to describe Twitter, but that sums it up quite nicely.
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Ads, porn and one-way chat... Twitter test run soon grows tiresome
Database, Gotfried. K, Published on 24/02/2010
» I've recently spent a few weeks playing around with Twitter. No doubt you've heard about it and maybe you're wondering what it's all about. Maybe you already know what it's all about - in that case, I think you'll find my opinion of it is rather different.
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