history of the internet

  1. Grey Havoc

    Amazon services showing 'signs of recovery' after Snapchat and banks among sites hit by major outage (BBC News)

    https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c5y8k7k6v1rt
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  2. Grey Havoc

    Afghanistan sees telecom shutdown as Taliban cut off internet (BBC News)

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxqdy5nrlqo
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  3. airman

    Plane-encyclopedia [NOT] banned from Youtube

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCedB-VzTqbe0QUpvkD-2JUw i don't know what's the matter !
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  4. dannydale

    I'm back, also YouTube has an annoying new thing for all of us to be forced to care about.

    Yeah, "Source Identifier" what a boatload of hotdog water.
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  5. Graham1973

    The 'Honey' App Scandal

    It seems that a few years ago an app called 'Honey' was heavily promoted by various YouTube influencers. It turns out the app which is owned by PayPal was designed to rip off not only the people who installed it but those who promoted it. This is part one of a series that's just started...
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  6. overscan (PaulMM)

    Crowdstrike causes world-wide IT outages

    So, our new security manager was talking about bringing in Crowdstrike where I work. Hopefully this idea will now be kiboshed after Crowdstrike deployed an update which 1) made Windows servers and desktops crash 2) rendered Windows servers and desktops unable to boot The only fix is to boot...
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  7. E

    TikTok

    I'm taking my dog off my account immediately. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65126056
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  8. Grey Havoc

    China upgrades its Great Firewall

    Via Slashdot: https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/06/great_firewall_of_china_upgrades/
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    • 2022 censorship computing cyberwar early 21st century golden shield project history of the internet information warfare ministry of public security people's republic of china
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  9. Grey Havoc

    Log4Shell

    https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/log4j-zero-day/ https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-lifestyle-software-apple-inc-aed3cc628fc602079b100757974c8f01
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  10. P

    Facebook, WhatApp and Instagram down....

    Some hilarious messages popping up on Twitter.....
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  11. overscan (PaulMM)

    Fire destroys OVHCloud's SBG2 data center in Strasbourg - 3.6 million websites offline

    https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2021/03/10/ovh-fire.html A fire at a major datacentre site in Europe took 3.6 million websites offline, with one datacentre totally destroyed, one damaged, and two others shut down. Of course, 4 datacentres all next to each other is.... Paralay's Russian...
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  12. K

    Internet Archive - classic aviation magazines (Aviation Week, Flight etc.)

    Aviation News Archive: Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine has an archive for a fee service on their website. Archive.org actually has the same content for free. There are PDF format available, but it is low resolution. To get the highest resolution, choose CBZ format (which is a zip...
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  13. Grey Havoc

    Adobe Flash Player finally bows out

    https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55497353 https://games.slashdot.org/story/21/01/01/029259/its-game-over-for-farmville-as-flash-also-buys-the-farm https://tech.slashdot.org/story/20/12/31/0217256/adobe-now-shows-alerts-in-windows-10-to-uninstall-flash-player
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  14. Grey Havoc

    50th Anniversary of the first Internet RFC (Request For Comment)

    Yesterday the 7th of April, strictly speaking. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1 https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/04/08/1340217/internet-rfc-series-turn-50
  15. Grey Havoc

    Why there is so little left of the early internet (BBC)

    http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190401-why-theres-so-little-left-of-the-early-internet
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  16. Grey Havoc

    OGAS - a planned Soviet national computer network

    The full name was 'The All-State Automated System for the Gathering and Processing of Information for the Accounting, Planning and Governance of the National Economy, USSR' (OGAS being a Russian acronym for the first four words). It has been described as the 'Soviet Internet'. It might be more...
  17. Grey Havoc

    End of the Internet as we know it, at least in Europe?

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-copyright/eu-lawmakers-agree-common-stand-on-copyright-reforms-idUSKCN1LS1QR https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/09/12/1129224/european-parliament-votes-in-favor-of-controversial-copyright-laws...
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  18. Grey Havoc

    ARPANET

    http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-internets-save-the-date-a-tiny-item-in-a-ucla-stu-898064971 http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-arpanet-1969-1989-in-one-gif-1258090851
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  19. overscan (PaulMM)

    World map showing distribution of internet connected devices

    I like this. http://internetcensus2012.bitbucket.org/images.html
  20. overscan (PaulMM)

    Countries that access SecretProjects forum.....

    Just put in new stats software for the forum. For the first day of operation, we had visits from: United States France Slovak Republic Germany United Kingdom Russian Federation Finland Italy Brazil Australia Poland Turkey Portugal Belgium New Zealand Norway Netherlands Sweden Thailand Canada...
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