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Cultural History of the Internet

Cultural History of the Internet

a course at Johns Hopkins University

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    • A1 Consumption: Your Futurist Internet
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Author: wli71

November 13, 2020 Memes

Memes for good – a history of We Are Number One

Memes are generally associated with randomness and funny compositions of images. However, those are not what I am focusing on

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October 30, 2020 Walled Gardens

Youtube and Regulating the Infinite Stream of Content

Youtube, a video hosting platform founded 15 years ago, has now become an irreplaceable component in the internet media ecosystem.

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October 9, 2020 Web Design

The Columbus Dispatch – Earliest Internet Newspaper

The Columbus Dispatch (www.dispatch.com) is one of the first news paper organization to go online in 1980 with CompuServe dial-up

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September 28, 2020 Bulletin Board Systems / Uncategorized

水木清华: The Earliest BBS in Mainland China and Its Regulation

In the US, BBS slowly faded out as other web based services took its place. This is not what happened

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September 22, 2020 Uncategorized

Communications Before the Internet

For most of human history, information and data are associated with physically tangible items, and the transportation of which usually

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