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Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy (2021)

Hacker News Top · 3d ago Cached

This scholarly book explores the underground 'Scene' of digital piracy, detailing its infrastructure, competitive culture, and aesthetics, and contrasts it with common ideological interpretations of piracy.

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.name Termination

Lobsters Hottest · 2026-09-03 Cached

Neil Fraser announces the termination of his .name domain registrations, which have been central to his online presence for nearly 25 years, hosting his website, email, and API servers.

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Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later

Lobsters Hottest · 2026-08-22 Cached

In 1986, astronomer Cliff Stoll discovered a 75-cent accounting error at UC Berkeley, leading to a year-long investigation into a hacker intruding into military computers via the early internet, showcasing early cybersecurity challenges.

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Hot or Not Built the Internet We’re Still Swiping Through

Wired · 2026-08-19 Cached

The article examines how Hot or Not, launched in 2000, established rating and swiping mechanisms that influenced modern dating apps like Tinder and Bumble, and highlights current trends moving away from swipe-based interfaces.

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Finger: Social network that never died

Hacker News Top · 2026-08-18 Cached

Finger is a 1971 network protocol that pioneered social networking features like user presence and microblogging through .plan files, and it still works on modern systems today.

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Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out

Hacker News Top · 2026-08-13 Cached

An analysis of 657,607 links from the 0.mk URL shortener (2009-2014) found that 76.7% of destinations no longer load, quantifying the decay of the old web.

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@freeCodeCamp: The internet's technical standards have a surprisingly long history of April Fools jokes. In this article, Omer has fun…

X AI KOLs Timeline · 2026-07-29 Cached

The article explores the IETF's tradition of publishing humorous RFCs on April Fools' Day, covering famous jokes like IP over carrier pigeons, the evil bit, and HTTP 418.

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The Internet I Grew Up with Doesn't Exist Anymore

Hacker News Top · 2026-07-01 Cached

A personal retrospective on how the internet has transformed from a place you visited selectively to an inescapable part of daily life, spanning from the early 2000s to 2026.

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The lasting influence of Netscape Time

Hacker News Top · 2026-05-17 Cached

本文回顾了1998年Netscape将其浏览器代码开源的历史时刻,并介绍了纪录片《Project Code Rush》如何记录这一过程。该事件加速了软件开发的步伐,并对后来的开源运动产生了深远影响。

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We accidentally recreated old Facebook

Hacker News Top · 2026-05-10

The article discusses an accidental recreation of Facebook's older interface or functionality.

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The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism

Hacker News Top · 2026-05-09 Cached

The article critiques cyberlibertarianism as a hypocritical ideology, arguing that the foundational beliefs of early internet pioneers like John Perry Barlow were flawed and misleading.

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What we once had (at the height of the XMPP era of the Internet) (2023)

Lobsters Hottest · 2026-04-19 Cached

A retrospective blog post lamenting the decline of XMPP (Jabber) from its peak around 2008 when it was widely used and supported by major platforms like Google and Facebook, contrasting it with modern decentralized alternatives like Matrix. The author reflects on how XMPP was once accessible to mainstream users through clients like Pidgin and Trillian but has since been supplanted by proprietary walled-garden messaging apps.

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