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The Death of the Internet – For Real

I’ve written a couple of times about how the “Death of the Internet” seemed to be just over the horizon. These were technical issues, and they were overcome by technical fixes. But congress is about to make changes that will not only usher in an age of censorship on the US part of the Internet, but [...]

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About Network Maintenance

This post inspired by people on Twitter who were having kittens because they think Twitter was shutting downfor maintenance. Twitter announced that their network provider is doing maintenance tonight and the service will be available for some periods during the hours of 11 pm till 4 am Pacific time. Notice that it is not Twitter [...]

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Video: The Android Phone is for Porn

Android crashes WWDC in this parody of Avenue Q’s “The Internet is for Porn.”

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Lawyers Will Save the Internet

Last  night I made a long post about the latest Impending Death of the Internet story. I tried to explain it all in English, but I have since heard that even that modest amount of tech, plus the length, caused eyes to glaze over. So here is the argument with as close to no tech [...]

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Death of the Internet, Again

Every couple of years there is another story about The Impending Death of the Internet, yet somehow the Internet is still here. The latest concern is an update of an issue I wrote about last year, running out of IPv4 address space. (I’ll put that in English in a minute.) The updated version of the [...]

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