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The creator of the World Wide Web is calling for a Digital Bill of Rights

On this, the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web, the man who invented it is calling for a higher order of net neutrality. No, not Al Gore. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who facilitated the flow of “a ‘web’ of notes with links between them,” has posted on Google’s blog, saying that his original intentions

This is what happens when the Internet blindly creates a work of art

My Holy Nacho is an artwork based on a misunderstanding. Originally it was to be called Moholy-Nagy, but that got wrongly translated as My Holy Nacho in a noisy drinking establishment, and the title stuck. That gave the artists Jamie Allen and Bernhard Garnicnig an idea. They purchased a sculptural

The Internet is more restricted around the world than you think

The Internet has great potential to do good stuff, like spreading freedom of speech around the globe, but according to this info-graphic map by an advocacy group for freedom of the press, it turns out that in many places it’s just another form of censorship. The color code shows where governments ra

Two artists’ plight to restore the atrociousness of GeoCities

Once upon a time the Internet was a simpler place. Websites had large “Enter” buttons on their front page. Crudely animated gifs of fireworks abound. And people made websites to simply say, “Hey, I made a website!” Then, the Internet grew out of its awkward teens, GeoCities closed down, and that par