From the category archives:

Internet

Perhaps more of interest to those who lived through it than those who arrived on the tail end, this is a fascinating and sometimes frustrating look back on infamous moments in AOL history.

The one thing not mentioned in the article is AOL’s link to the ironically self-titled Open Directory Project aka DMOZ, an once noble if hopelessly overoptimistic project whose recent history is as infamous as that of its owners.

20 Years of AOL Annoyances and Foul-Ups
by Harry McCracken, Technologizer, PCWorld
Apr 28, 2009

AOL floppies and CDs. Sharon Stone’s fling with the Running Man icon. The death of Netscape. It’s all part of AOL history we’d like to forget.

Read the PCWorld article here.

Discussion continues here.

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Raising Awareness vs. Promoting and Normalizing Pathology

by djbaxter January 5, 2009

Newsweek recently published an article titled Out of the Shadows regarding the proliferation of so-called “pro-ana” web sites:
A Web page labeled “Ana Boot Camp” recently offered its members a seemingly irresistible proposition: a 30-day regimen designed to help them drop some serious pounds, no exercise needed. The catch was that the group’s members were to vary [...]

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Misguided Protectors of Freedom of Speech: The next chapter

by djbaxter December 30, 2008

Uproar in Australia Over Plan to Block Web Sites
December 26, 2008
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — A proposed Internet filter dubbed the ”Great Aussie Firewall” is promising to make Australia one of the strictest Internet regulators among democratic countries.
Consumers, civil-rights activists, engineers, Internet providers and politicians from opposition parties are among the critics of a mandatory Internet [...]

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DMOZ reaches a new low

by djbaxter June 8, 2007

Compostannie, one of the most hard-working, most honest, and most principled of the mixed bag of DMOZ editors and arguably one of the best ambassadors DMOZ ever had, has been removed by the scurrilous crew that makes up the DMOZ inner sanctum.
Debates over the cowardly and shameful way this was done are currently raging [...]

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Tagged

by djbaxter April 3, 2007

I’m a little late finding this but…
I was tagged by Jeremy Mayes (aka GuyFromChicago) back in December 2006:
After you’ve been tagged you’re supposed to spill the beans on 5 things people don’t know about you then tag a few other people.
Here’s mine:

I was the second oldest (oldest son) of twelve children and had five sisters before [...]

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When do our children become FIRST priority?

by djbaxter February 9, 2007

This kind of reaction from so-called “civil liberties” factions both amazes and enrages me:
Child porn rings hard to track
Wed Feb 7, 2007
By BRIAN BERGSTEIN, AP Technology Writer The numbers behind an international child pornography bust Wednesday were themselves disturbing: Nearly 2,400 suspects from 77 countries allegedly paid to view videos depicting sexual abuse online. But the [...]

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Action against and recovery from pro-anorexia websites

by djbaxter January 12, 2007

Spanish authorities have taken strong action against a website actively promoting anorexia:
Spanish health authority bans website promoting anorexia
MADRID, Jan 10, 2007 (AFP) – Spanish authorities have banned an internet site which was about to run a competition for young women suffering from anorexia, a regional health spokesman said Tuesday.
“This kind of thing is just not [...]

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