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The Beauty of The Internet

by John Cole|  October 8, 20079:42 am| 13 Comments

This post is in: Media, Science & Technology

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On the front page of the NY Times, a link to a Times weblog, which includes a youtube video of an SNL skit from NBC.

You have come a long way, ARPANET.

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  1. 1.

    Quiddity

    October 8, 2007 at 10:32 am

    The cross-linking of information has been a real boon, allowing readers to quickly access supplemental information in order to obtain a broader picture of a particular topic. Way back in the past, I’d be reading a political journal (like New Republic) and be hopping up to the bookshelves for more information (like that found in an almanac or magazine article on the same person or subject area). But now it’s all there within the browser. Cool.

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    Jack Roy

    October 8, 2007 at 10:49 am

    Heh heh… jokes about blowjobs. Who says SNL isn’t as good as it used to be?

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    Punchy

    October 8, 2007 at 11:11 am

    You mean like this one?

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    jnfr

    October 8, 2007 at 11:30 am

    Your post goaded me to look up the details of my first old ‘net connection, through the Well, through BARRnet, into NSFnet, where I had to sign a no-commercial-use agreement every time I logged on. That was in the early and mid-90s. How quickly things have changed!

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    neil

    October 8, 2007 at 11:37 am

    Wow, it’s a revolution! The NY Times referencing a blogger paid by the New York Times, who links to a comedy skit produced by NBC! The Internet is truly tearing down the barriers to entry.

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    srv

    October 8, 2007 at 11:53 am

    And you have Sputnik to thank for all of that.

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    John Cole

    October 8, 2007 at 12:08 pm

    Sometimes I hate you, Neil. But yeah, you are right.

    I guess I just thought it was cool.

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    Zifnab

    October 8, 2007 at 12:13 pm

    Wow, it’s a revolution! The NY Times referencing a blogger paid by the New York Times, who links to a comedy skit produced by NBC! And none of it is behind a paid firewall or requires me to shell out $20 for a DVD!

    I think you haven’t quite realized the significance. The fact that corporate media is finally catching up to the link-state that you could find on any blog or forum five years ago rather than running you through some arcane, Byzantine maze of flub, shows that the corporate internet really has come a long way.

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    Bombadil

    October 8, 2007 at 12:25 pm

    Has anyone ever done a study on whether there’s an Internet equivalent of “Six Degrees of Separation”? For example, if you were to pick a random link to another website, and click on a random link there, and so on, how long would it take to get back to the original site?

    How many clicks would it take to get from “Balloon Juice” to icanhascheezburger.com, just by selecting random links?

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    Cyrus

    October 8, 2007 at 1:38 pm

    How many clicks would it take to get from “Balloon Juice” to icanhascheezburger.com, just by selecting random links?

    Well, going by random links, it would take a really long time, probably. However, Tim F. once put up a post linking to http://www.cuteoverload.com (maybe it was John, but I don’t think so), and I’d be very surprised if that page didn’t have a link to icanhascheezburger.com in its blogroll. Or at the very least, even if it doesn’t have a blogroll, links to it probably pop up in the comments sometimes. So, probably no more than three or four clicks.

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    Albert Gore Jr.

    October 8, 2007 at 2:15 pm

    Why thank you Mr. Cole. I consider it one of my finest and innovative inven… (ahem) pieces of legislation.

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    SPIIDERWEB™

    October 8, 2007 at 8:12 pm

    ARPANET?

    Hahaha. Either you’re a student of internets tubes history or disclosing your age.

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    Nancy Irving

    October 9, 2007 at 6:49 am

    Not sure “Science and Technology” is the right tag here. What’s amazing about what the internet has become is what people have done with it, not the technology itself, which is really only an incidental enabler.

    IOW, the internet, or rather what is *important* about the internet, is a social and cultural phenomenon, not a technological phenomenon.

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