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Feeling Lonely on the Net

Published: August 3, 2021

There are plenty who make the case that the web makes us lonely. But sometimes, the opposite is true.

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Everyone Should Have Access to the Web

Published: November 17, 2020

The World Wide Web Foundation began as a way to bring the web to everyone. In these trying times, it is needed more than ever.

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Your Privacy Policy Doesn’t Mean A Thing; Regulating Privacy on the Web

Published: September 4, 2018

In the beginning, the web had no memory. When you followed a link to a new page, everything you did […]

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Archiving the Web

Published: October 30, 2017

Archiving the web is an important mission and the resources it requires is immense. It is thanks to a select few that it gets done at all.

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Before There Were Smartphones, There Was I-Mode

Published: April 25, 2017

In January of 1999, members of DoCoMo held a press conference in Tokyo, attended by only a handful of people. At […]

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What the Web Could Have Been

Published: April 18, 2017

Before the web, Gopher offered a way to connect to the Internet and share documents. And if things had gone a little differently, it might even be what we use to surf information today.

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