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Log files that describe the history of the internet are disappearing. A new project hopes to save them

The Internet History Initiative wants future historians to have a chance to understand how human progress and technical ...
The Nation

The Intimate and Interconnected History of the Internet

Kevin Driscoll’s new book The Modem World offers a picture of an early Internet defined by community, experimentation, and lack of privacy. (Fotoreport Quelle AG / AP Images) By signing up, you ...
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What 1990s Internet History Tells Us About the AI Boom

In 2020, OpenAI introduced GPT-3, a large language model used to produce a variety of computer codes and other language tasks. Two years later, the company produced its Artificial Intelligence (AI) ...
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How Britain Almost Got Its Own Internet

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is photographed by the press as she tries out a computer during a visit to Logica Ltd in London, 1980. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is photographed ...