“The fundamental principles of P2P – that the network is the computer [&c.]…are now a part of every application and system designer’s toolkit.”

web standards stuff I need to read

“The last 200 years have driven centralization and changed the human experience in ways that conflict with evolution. The Internet will reestablish a more balanced, decentralized lifestyle.”

interview with Q&A on semantic web stuff

“We lied to you. In the golden 80s and 90s we told you micropayments and content protection would work; that you would be able to charge minuscule amounts of money whenever someone listened to your music or watched your movie.”

The petabox by the Internet Archive is a machine designed to safely store and process one petabyte of information (a petabyte is a million gigabytes)

“For a while, it seemed as if gopher might open the Internet up to the nontechnical masses and usher in a new era of online communication. It very well might have, if the Web hadn’t come along and done it instead”

“a partial list of papers written by people now at Google, showing the range of backgrounds of people in Google Engineering”

Flash-based visual map of Google News… interesting

/. for the impatient