Tag Archives: Internet

Current Affairs, Politics, Science & Health, Times They Are A-Changing, Web & Technology

T-Mobile and Verizon home internet is a new threat to cable | Fast Company

Cheap home internet from T-Mobile and Verizon is here, and it’s already threatening the cable giants.

By Jared Newman, August 30, 2022, 5 minute Read

[Photo: Lo Sarno/Unsplash]

For years, Comcast and other cable companies have leaned on a simple strategy to offset the effects of cord-cutting: Charge a steep price on home internet service, and enjoy soaring profits thanks to little or no competition.

That strategy may now be in jeopardy. Comcast’s internet subscriber growth was essentially flat last quarter, while Charter lost 21,000 Spectrum internet subscribers. For both companies, it’s the first time they’ve failed to grow their home internet businesses in a given quarter.

The reason isn’t a mystery, either: All around the country, T-Mobile and Verizon have been rolling out cheap home internet service powered by their 5G networks, at last giving customers an alternative where none previously existed.

In an earnings call, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts pointed to those carriers as a reason its broadband growth has hit a wall.

Source: https://www.fastcompany.com/90782532/comcast-and-charter-face-a-grim-new-reality-actual-competition

Current Affairs, Libraries, Memories & History, Web & Technology

What Is Your Earliest Memory of the Internet? | The Signal

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July 27, 2022 by Tracee Haupt

DCMS members present at the Open House, including (from L-R) Abigail Shelton and Carlyn Osborn representing By the People, Hana Beckerle and Kate Murray representing FADGI, and Lauren Baker representing the Web Archives

What is your earliest memory of the internet?

The Web Archiving Team and our colleagues in the Digital Content Management Section asked this question during an open house for attendees of the American Library Association’s annual conference, where we had a table set up to share information about our work.

As an ice breaker, we asked everyone who visited our table to write down their earliest memory of the internet on yellow post-it notes, and by the end of the night, we had over a hundred.

Source: What Is Your Earliest Memory of the Internet? | The Signal

Current Affairs, Web & Technology

What ‘Cunningham’s Law’ Really Tells Us About How We Interact Online | lifehacker

By Stephen Johnson, 4/01/22 9:00AM

Illustration: “Duty Calls”/xkcd – Creative Commons (Fair Use)

I’m sure you’re familiar with the XKCD comic “Duty Calls” in which an internet user is passionately typing away late into the night because “someone is wrong on the internet!”

The comic illustrates Cunningham’s Law, the tongue-in-cheek axiom that states “the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question, it’s to post the wrong answer.”

The principle behind Cunningham’s Law isn’t new—there’s even a French saying that translates to “preach the falsehood to know the truth”—but even though it’s well-established, Cunningham’s Law is hardly an effective way to gather information online—and actually tells us more about how the internet seems to invite us to disagree about everything.

Source: What ‘Cunningham’s Law’ Really Tells Us About How We Interact Online

Memories & History, Times They Are A-Changing, Web & Technology, Weblogs (Blogs)

‘Remember the Internet’: An Encyclopedia of Online Life – The Atlantic

How do we memorialize life online when it’s constantly disappearing?

by Kaitlyn Tiffany, March 22, 2021

Jim Steele / Popperfoto / Getty / Wikimedia / The Atlantic

For many of us, for better or for worse, the internet is home.

Our communities are here, because many of them could not exist any other way.

Superfans, shitposters, amateur experts, wiki nerds, grizzled forum moderators, obsessive sneaker enthusiasts, and hobbyists who spend a substantial amount of their time photographing vintage Furbies in human clothes, for example—the cultural and creative output of these communities is enormous and ever growing.

Source: ‘Remember the Internet’: An Encyclopedia of Online Life – The Atlantic

Web & Technology

Google Pay: Here’s how to set it up on your Android phone – CNET

via Google Pay: Here’s how to set it up on your Android phone – CNET

Headline: “Google Pay: Here’s how to set it up on your Android phone
You can use the Google Pay digital wallet from your Android phone or watch instead of rifling through your wallet for your credit and debit cards.”