fun facts
Bill Gates explains the internet to Dave Letterman in 1995.
He also tries to convince Dave to get a computer. | learn more
Tag: internet
fun facts
The Onion files an Amicus brief with the Supreme Court.
It seems some district court made the imprudent decision of requiring a disclaimer before any parody content on the internet. The Onion decided to weigh in. | learn more
fun facts
Creative people.
I just learned of a very popular YouTube creator called SSSniperWolf. In this video, you can watch her reactions side-by-side with a set of creative videos (i.e., a person painting their car to look like a cartoon). It’s about a […]
on the blockchain
Navigating the Urbit.
Messari profiles Urbit, “… a private, digital homestead for all-around Web3 usage; its peer-to-peer OS offers cloud and community-based services. It’s built from the ground up and runs on almost any phone, tablet, laptop—or anything with Unix and an internet […]
big ideas
How would you run a 10,000-year endowment?
Byrne Hobart ponders this interesting question. “Trends like the Internet and the Industrial Revolution occur in “the short-term.”“ | learn more
tech, startups, internet
Microsoft and the metaverse.
Ben Thompson from Stratechery thinks the metaverse is already here in the form of the internet. Its next iteration will primarily serve workers, not consumers. “This means that the company that is, in my opinion, the most well-placed to capitalize […]
better doing
Why content is king
“We’re going to analyze media from a systems perspective, and explore the properties that make it a good source of power.” | learn more
on the blockchain
Newsweek in 1995: Why the internet will fail
This isn’t about blockchain, but it’s a must-read complementary pairing to the article above about blockchain being good for (almost) nothing. “They speak of electronic town meetings and virtual communities. Commerce and business will shift from offices and malls to […]
better doing
How to disagree
Paul Graham wrote this essay in March 2008. He recognized that the rise of the internet allowed people to express disagreements more frequently than legacy media. Then he ranked the key methods of disagreement from name-calling to refutation of the […]