So you're a spider?

Q: What do you do for work?

A: I'm a web designer.

"The Internet represents the death of forgetting."
- Unattributed

A new web series by Jerry Seinfeld here.

the Internet records everything and forgets nothing

The digital age is facing its first existential crisis: the impossibility of erasing your posted past and moving on.

artists

Collaborate on projects and get paid: www.hitrecord.org

motto

"Often wrong, never in doubt."
- Marc Andreessen [born 1971] has six residential satellite t.v. receivers which cost him $2500/month.

show and sell your art for free

"The great majority of artists around the world don't have dealers to represent or show their work. It makes it pretty well impossible to get your efforts seen, with most dealers too busy or too lazy to visit studios—and who can blame them ... By allowing artists unfettered access to create their own pages to present their work free on the site, communicate with other artists, sell their work without commission direct to buyers, we want to break the deadlock ... The site is helping to get lots of artists' work out of their studios and onto collectors' walls."

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/

It's a sickness

http://www.itsasickness.com/

1969

how big is the internet?

Commenting on the vastness of future storage capacity, Google's Eric Schmidt predicts that today's Internet would fit into one standard Smart Phone sized device within 15 years.

Graphic source here.

Europe by Net

http://www.europebynet.com/

how does the Internet see you?

Enter your first and last names here.

Internet Addiction Center Opens

Do you have a problem? There may be help: a $14,000, 45-day Internet-addiction center called ReSTART opened in July in Redmond, Washington—not far from Microsoft’s headquarters. ReSTART claims to be the first rehabilitation center for Internet addiction in the United States, though there are several such centers already in Asia. It uses the cold-turkey approach. Its only patient has been a World of Warcraft addict who now “spends his days in counseling and psychotherapy sessions, doing household chores, working on the grounds, going on outings, exercising and baking a mean batch of ginger cookies.” Read it at Associated Press

over one trillion web pages

Which according to Bing would take an average person "six hundred thousand decades of nonstop reading to read through the information." Source here.

I don't believe in the Internet

45

"Canadians are highly engaged spending an average of 45 hours per month online, which is more than any other country on earth."

- Jonathan Lister [University of Toronto Rotman MBA], Managing Director, Google Canada

Google Moon available here.

An earlier reference to Google here.

You actually said that online?

A new website archives entertaining comments that have been posted on the Internet, such as this representative thread:

eqtworld: Would you not kill Hitler to stop the holocaust?

Weaver95: nope. I’d go back in time and make sure he got into art school.

eqtworld: It would be easier to shoot him, those paintings suck

Weaver95: if he got into art school, he would have gotten better.

eqtworld: good point

More here.

homeless man's website helps him get by

"Now, thanks to an Internet marketing campaign and unlikely allies, Edwards has become the human face of homelessness to thousands of online viewers drawn to his Web site by its deliberately controversial name - Pimp This Bum. During regular Webcasts, dozens of visitors to http://www.pimpthisbum.com/ ask questions about Edwards' life and his slow fall from office manager with a home, a car, and a future to an outcast short of hope and with little prospect of help." 

Full story here.

underwater cable

1901 vs 2009. Image source here.

History of the Internet