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By: Jim Boulton

Jim Boulton is a digital archaeologist.

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  • Happy birthday, internet – let’s make the next 50 years just as innovative

    How do we define the birth of the internet? As an ambiguous, shifting entity, it is often hard to define what the internet even is, let alone its beginning. In my eyes, the date the first message was sent across the telephone network, from one computer to another – late on the evening of 29 [...]

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