Posts tagged 'Internet'

Country codes, meant international dialing codes. But, who uses the phone these days, right? This map of country codes talks of a different sort of country code—domain names.

Although .com is the world’s most popular Top-Level Domain (TLD), it is far from alone. There are over 260 TLDs in use around the world, most of which are country code top-level domains (ccTLDs).

This is one of the places where our Internet lives. A data center in Villeurbanne, France.

"The Internet is the largest experiment involving anarchy in history."

— This is how begins a new book, “The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business,” written by two top Google execs, Eric E. Schmidt, Jared Cohen.

(Source: The New York Times)

In 1974, Arthur C. Clarke made predictions about personal computers, Internet, and the networked society.

The End Of Cyberflânerie.

“[…] if today’s Internet has a Baron Haussmann, it is Facebook. Everything that makes cyberflânerie possible — solitude and individuality, anonymity and opacity, mystery and ambivalence, curiosity and risk-taking — is under assault by that company. And it’s not just any company: with 845 million active users worldwide, where Facebook goes, arguably, so goes the Internet.”

—Evgeny Morozov, on the disappearance of the cyberflâneur, the aimless wanderer on the Internet.

(Source: The New York Times)