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• Originally published 04/24/2018

  The Internet is the new Wheel of Fortune

  Niall Ferguson

  Social media has democratized politics, but it can kill an individual's reputation in a nanosecond. 

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• Originally published 01/12/2016

  One of the Internet’s pioneers says he was inspired by his research into the Homestead Act of 1862

  It’s one reason he’s so worried about the Internet now.

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• Originally published 01/27/2015

  Can the Internet be archived?

  Jill Lepore

  What happens when your evidence vanishes by dinnertime?

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• Originally published 03/12/2014

  The Technologists' Siren Song

  W. Patrick McCray

  Tech buzzwords are a tepid substitute for robust analysis and honest critique.

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• Originally published 11/13/2013

  The Silver Lining of Obama's Weak America

  Daniel Pipes

  Obama's weakness is forcing America's allies to step up.

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• Originally published 10/30/2013

  What Vampire Graves Tell Us About Ancient Superstitions

  Hundreds of years ago, ignorance about decomposition and disease sparked fears that the dead returned to drink the blood of the living.

• Originally published 05/21/2013

  The Maya meet the Internet

  Researchers began decoding the glyphic language of the ancient Maya long ago, but the Internet is helping them finish the job and write the history of this enigmatic Mesoamerican civilization.For centuries, scholars understood little about Maya script beyond its elegant astronomical calculations and calendar. The Maya had dominated much of Central America and southern Mexico for 1,000 years before their civilization collapsed about 600 years before the Spaniards reached the New World....

• Originally published 05/01/2013

  World’s first website back online

  Content on the Internet is ephemeral. A website can be online one minute, and taken down the next. As permanent as we think our Internet footprints are, the Web is perpetually changing. Much of the early Internet has been lost.One very important webpage, however, has been rescued from history. Yesterday, European particle physics laboratory CERN returned the first ever Internet website to its rightful place on the Web.Originally created by CERN in 1992, the world’s first website invokes a time long past when pages were just plain text on a white background. There are no advertisements, no pictures, and certainly no video. It’s an entirely utilitarian site rendered in Times New Roman, the most default of fonts....

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• Originally published 01/14/2013

  Jim Cullen: Review of Andrew Piper's "Book Was There: Reading in Electronic Times" (Chicago, 2012)

  Jim Cullen, who teaches at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York, is a book review editor at HNN. His new book, Sensing the Past: Hollywood Stars and Historical Visions, has just been published by Oxford University Press. Cullen blogs at American History Now.

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• Originally published 11/06/2011

  When Was The Internet Invented?

  Daniel Mallia

  Al Gore didn't invent it (and didn't claim to).

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• Originally published 05/10/2017

  Whose Internet Is It?

  Steve Hochstadt

  One of the exciting new developments in computer connectedness is the “internet of things”, the networking among objects we own, like cars, refrigerators, thermostats, and light switches, so they can communicate with us and with each other. In cute ads on TV, a baby turns lights on and off at home by touching a smart phone. In real life, the most basic of your daily actions at home can be monitored and recorded by companies you don’t know about or be hacked by criminals.

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• Originally published 07/19/2016

  Does Technology Make Us Dumber or Smarter? Yes.

  Infinity, Limited

  Since humans began to farm, technology has made us individually dumber and individually smarter – and collectively smarter. Technology has made us able to do more while understanding less about what we are doing, and has increased our dependence on others.  What technology has not done is make us wiser.