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The Internet

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The Internet

The 'network of networks' has become the dominant communications platform for every aspect of our lives: from entertainment to shopping to politics to sex ... to Newser

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  • June 2009
    • MacLachlan May Revive Twin Peaks Online

      MacLachlan May Revive Twin Peaks Online

      (Newser) - Agent Dale Cooper may be returning to Twin Peaks , at least on the Internet. Kyle MacLachlan—now on the slightly different Desperate Housewives —says he hopes to launch 5-minute webisodes that pick up where the quirky '90s show left off, reports the WENN blog on iMDB. Creator David Lynch won't be involved, however. "David's focus is more on transcendental meditation now," MacLachlan says. More »

    • Bing's Week 2: Not So Bad

      Bing's Week 2: Not So Bad

      (Newser) - Bing's second week wasn't such a bad one, CNET reports. Microsoft’s brand-new search engine has eaten into the market share of its competition, tacking on a 1% gain in both number of searchers and results returned last week, putting it up about 3% in both categories since launch: It captured 16.7% of search users and returned 12.1% of all results pages. More »

    • How MySpace Lost Its Crown

      How MySpace Lost Its Crown

      (Newser) - MySpace was overtaken by Facebook for the first time last month and without some serious innovation, Rupert Murdoch's big buy may end up joining Friendster in the ranks of the also-rans, Dawn Chmielewski and David Sarno write in the Los Angeles Times . The world of social networking moves at an unforgiving pace, the two note, and MySpace has been playing catch-up instead of leading, as its own initiatives tanked. More »

    • Nev. Newspaper Defends Commenters' Anonymity

      Nev. Newspaper Defends Commenters' Anonymity

      (Newser) - A tax-evasion trial has sparked a free-speech controversy at the Las Vegas Review-Journal . The paper has declined to honor a federal subpoena demanding the identities of everyone who commented on an article on the trial. Businessman Robert Kahre faces tax-fraud charges for hiding the real value of sales of gold and silver coins, and an article attracted nearly 200 comments—mostly supportive of Kahre, and highly critical of the prosecution. More »

    • Abuse Victim Blige Records Duet With Chris Brown

      Abuse Victim Blige Records Duet With Chris Brown

      (Newser) - In a somewhat baffling move, Mary J. Blige has recorded a duet with alleged Rihanna-beater Chris Brown, Jezebel reports. Blige has been outspoken about her suffering at the hands of a former boyfriend and the terrors of growing up around domestic violence. To make matters more uncomfortable, it appears that the Blige/Brown song, leaked on the Internet, was originally intended for Brown and Rihanna. More »

    • On the Fence? Play a Hunch.com

      On the Fence? Play a Hunch.com

      (Newser) - A new website is ready to answer your queries, but it wants to get to know you first. Hunch.com, created by MIT scientists, asks a series of questions before making a recommendation—say, which car to buy, where to go on vacation, what campy movie to watch. It offers 2,400 decision topics, 14,000 follow-up questions, and more than 50,000 results, the Christian Science Monitor reports. More »

    • Ahmadinejad Foes Gang Up on Websites

      Ahmadinejad Foes Gang Up on Websites

      (Newser) - As protests continue on the streets of Tehran, hackers in and outside of Iran are mounting an assault on the establishment's main websites, reports ZDNet. The sites of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and several news agencies were crippled yesterday after activists flooded them with traffic. The campaign appears to have spread on Twitter, which has become one of the most reliable forms of communication during the unrest. More »

    • For Latest on Iran Unrest, Check Online First

      For Latest on Iran Unrest, Check Online First

      (Newser) - Traditional media are having a tough time covering the Iranian election fallout, but fear not: Web 2.0 is up to the task. The Washington Post runs down the best destinations for those hoping to stay on top of the situation: PicFog.com: Current, unedited photos containing "a level of gore or manipulation not found on traditional news sites." More »

    • Google Set to Add Microblog Search

      Google Set to Add Microblog Search

      (Newser) - Evidence suggests that Google will soon introduce a “MicroBlogsearch” feature, indexing and searching Twitter and its imitators, Ars Technica reports. Google-watchers noticed a reference to the new feature hidden in Google’s translation service. Unlike Twitter’s own search, which seeks out any and all tweets containing the search terms and displays them chronologically, Google will seek to rank the links by relevance. More »

    • Jews Eat Up Kosher 'Koogle' Search Engine

      Jews Eat Up Kosher 'Koogle' Search Engine

      (Newser) - Orthodox Jews have long been discouraged from searching the Internet due to rabbinical restrictions on viewing immodest content. No longer, Reuters reports. Enter Koogle—the name is a mashup of Google and a traditional Jewish noodle dish—a Hebrew-language search engine that filters out non-kosher content and appears to meet Orthodox standards. More »

    • Va. Primary Upset Shows 'Google Blasting' Works

      Va. Primary Upset Shows 'Google Blasting' Works

      (Newser) - Creigh Deeds owes a debt to Google after his surprising come-from-behind win in this week's Virginia Democratic gubernatorial primary. Starting the day before the election, Derek Thompson writes for the Atlantic, Deeds’ campaign employed “Google Blasting, an eleventh-hour strategy to blanket Google-affiliated webpages in an area with a single ad campaign to impact voters' final decision.” And he’s not the only one. More »

    • 24/7 Online Artist Channels Point to Radio's Future

      24/7 Online Artist Channels Point to Radio's Future

      (Newser) - Musicians want to connect with fans, and radio needs to survive in the Web 2.0 era: Enter artist personal experience (a.p.e.) radio. Clear Channel launches the 24/7 online channels, featuring artists’ personal radio shows, next month. “We feel that the old model of trying to get radio airplay and some video play is broken,” the CEO of Front Line Management, a partner in the venture, told Billboard . More »

    • Microsoft Move Won't Derail Antitrust Case

      Microsoft Move Won't Derail Antitrust Case

      (Newser) - The European Commission is moving forward with its antitrust case against Microsoft even after the company's promise to sell its Windows 7 operating system without Internet Explorer in Europe. The commission "notes with interest" Microsoft's announcement, CNET News reports, but adds that "Microsoft has apparently decided to supply retail consumers with a version of Windows without a Web browser at all." More »

    • Von Brunn's Digital Trail Disappears

      Von Brunn's Digital Trail Disappears

      (Newser) - James von Brunn's online presence began to vanish within hours after he was named as the suspect in the Holocaust Museum shooting Wednesday, the Washington Post reports. Users trying to access his personal website received an error message, his user bio on Wikipedia was pulled, and the Free Republic message board temporarily removed a posting from him questioning President Obama's citizenship. More »

    • Army Lifts Ban on Social Media

      Army Lifts Ban on Social Media

      (Newser) - The US Army has lifted a years-long ban on online social networks, commanding bases to let soldiers access sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr so they can “tell the Army story,” Wired reports. The change doesn’t apply to all overseas bases or other armed forces, and it leaves MySpace, YouTube, and Pandora blocked. But it marks a shift in the military’s thinking towards the web tools. More »

    • Microsoft to Release Free Anti-Virus Software Soon

      Microsoft to Release Free Anti-Virus Software Soon

      (Newser) - Microsoft is developing free anti-virus software to compete with subscription services from Symantec and McAfee, Reuters reports. The program, codenamed Morro, will be released in beta “soon” and will likely have similar features to other companies’ entry-level products that cost about $40 a year. Microsoft made an attempt to enter the subscription market in 2006 with the poorly received Live OneCare, which the company is scrapping. More »

    • Lovesick New Yorker Sues Match.com

      Lovesick New Yorker Sues Match.com

      (Newser) - A Brooklyn man is suing Match.com over “humiliation and disappointment” suffered by users who seek dates with non-subscribers, the New York Post reports. Most people listed on the site, he says, “are canceled subscribers or never subscribed at all.” And those who e-mail them “feel rejected when their e-mails get no reply,” Sean McGinn claims. More »

    • French Court Throws Out Anti-Piracy Law

      French Court Throws Out Anti-Piracy Law

      (Newser) - France’s constitutional council today shot down the country’s newly minted “three strikes” law against Internet piracy, Ars Technica reports. The council said the law, which set up an administrative body to punish pirates, violated basic principles of French law, assigning essentially judicial duties to a non-judicial body, and putting the burden of proof on the accused, not the accusers. More »

    • Feds Freeze Online Poker Players' Winnings

      Feds Freeze Online Poker Players' Winnings

      (Newser) - Federal authorities have seized or frozen bank accounts holding $34 million belonging to online poker players in what appears to be the start of a crackdown, the Wall Street Journal reports. The accounts are managed by a company that handles payments for several popular online poker sites, and the cash belongs to some 27,000 winning players. More »

    • Tiananmen Sweeps Twitter as Chinese Thwart Ban

      Tiananmen Sweeps Twitter as Chinese Thwart Ban

      (Newser) - China's blocking of Twitter ahead of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre last week didn't foil the country's computer-savvy youth for very long, the BBC reports. Users swiftly shared information about visiting the site through proxies or software applications, and the subsequent twittering made Tiananmen one of Twitter's most-discussed topics last week. More »

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Background

A Brief Hisotry of the Internet
Internet Society

"The Internet has revolutionized the computer and communications world like nothing before. The invention of the telegraph, telephone, radio, and computer set the stage for this unprecedented integration of capabilities."

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The Internet Explained
Search and Go

"Once the preserve of the scientific and military communities, the Internet has now blossomed into a vehicle of expression and research for the common person with hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of new pages being added to the World Wide Web every day."

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Inventing the internet Age
CBC (Canada)

" Home > Science and Technology > Inventing the Internet Age Inventing the Internet Age From early dreams of global information networks to the dominance of the World Wide Web, networked computers have changed the way Canadians interact with the world. For more than three decades the CBC has...

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History of the Internet
Living Internet

"A free, in-depth reference about the Internet, prepared to provide living perspective to this most technological of human inventions."

» Read more about History of the Internet at Living Internet

10 Years That Changed the World
Wired

"A decade ago, Netscape went public, blasting the Web into everyday life. Now, Wired talks to the inside players - from Marc Andreessen to Shawn Fanning to Steve Jobs - about 10 years of boom, bust, and sock puppets."

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