Internet, Web, Social History. Index
Index of non-tech essays related to internet tech culture over the years.
Social Networking
- Xah Lee Online History (2021)
- Facebook Embed Tracking Data in Photos (2019)
- StackOverflow Email Spam (2019)
- Why I'm Removing Tech Blogger Celebrities and Googler on Google Plus (2012)
- Women in Tech, Google Plus, TWiT (2011)
- Anonymous vs Google. Origin and Culture of Anonymous (2012)
- Google Plus Account Real Name Policy (Nymwars) (2011)
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- Monolithic Web Pages (2007)
- Micropayment on the Web: It's Only a Matter of Time (2010)
- URL Shortening is Bad (2010)
- The Day Steve Jobs Died, Apple, Google Website Screenshots (2011)
- My Personal Photos of Steve Jobs (1955 to 2011)
- Steve Jobs, 3 Months Before He Died (2011)
- Richard Stallman on Steve Jobs's Death (2011)
- Death of Steve Jobs vs Dennis Ritchie, John McCarthy (2011)
- Apple Censorship (2010)
- Amazon Closes CA Affiliate Program (2011)
- TV Has Arrived on The Web (2011)
- Tech Humor: Apache vs Node.js vs NGINX 📺 (2013)
- Duckduckgo Search Problems (2018)
- Brave Search (2022)
- Duckduckgo Censor Results for Ukraine War. (2022)
SEO
- Google Search Ranking Ingredients (SEO secrets) (2011)
- 7 Things You Need to Know About SEO (2010)
- 3 Twitter Facts You'll Never Forget (2010)
- Domain Names, Cybersquatting, Resell Market (2010)
- Popular Money Making Websites (2010)
- How to Monetize Your Website (2010)
- Advantages of FeedBurner and Some Web Feed History (2010)
Internet Sociology
- Google Blogger Porn Content Policy (2010)
- Internet is For Porn; What Girls Do On The Internet? (2011)
- Google Kills Google Reader (Blogging) (2013)
- Google Plus Account Real Name Policy (Nymwars) (2011)
- Facebook's Ethics (2010)
- orkut.com, A Cross-Cultural Look of Sexual Anthropology (2005)
- The Demise of orkut.com (2004)
- Are You Getting Truth From Pop Blogs (2010)
- Facebook Dating Ads Girls Screenshots (2010)
- Cookies, Super Cookies, Your Privacy (2011)
- Reddit Becomes Porn Fodder (2010)
- Internet Hipsters and Hipstering of our Age (2011)
- Technology for Knowledge in Past 2 Decades (2011)
Wikipedia
- The Encyclopedic Internet (2003)
- Why is Wikipedia Successful (2005)
- MathWorld and Wikipedia (2005)
- On Wikipedia's Misinformation (2005)
- Wikipedia Morons (2005)
- Encyclopedia, My Experiences. (2007)
- Lispers and Wikipedia (2007)
- Death of Encarta. (2009)
- Wikipedia ban on Editing Tibet (2008)
- Wikipedia Article on Cindy's Torment (2009)
- Censorship: Wikipedia and Photo of Human Vulva (2010)
- Wikipedia Donation Scam (2012 to 2025)
- Links to Wikipedia from Xah Sites (2016)
- What Things You Cannot Trust in Wikipedia (2023)
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- Industrial Tech: Twilio, SendGrid, Google Cloud Messaging, Apple Push Notification Service
- Opera Browser Can't Load Twitter CSS
- To SOPA or Not to SOPA? Stop Online Piracy Act
- MegaUpload Boss Kim Dotcom
- iPad, iPhone, Kindle, Xoom: Pixel Dimension, Resolution, Density
- Screen Size Comparison. DVD, iPhone, iPad, MacBook, Blu-ray (2011)
- What is Kindle, iPad, Android? (2010)
- Modern Tablet Computer Features
- Tablet Computer: Touch-screen Interface Pros and Cons
- What Encoding Do Chinese Websites Use?
- The Ease of Making Money by Professional Blogging
- Humor: CSS Experimental Pain, Window Blind
- HTML Style 1999: Hacker News
- Hacker News Traffic Effect
- Social Network Voting Systems and Their Consequences
- Global Internet Usage Hour Pattern (2014)
- WHATWG vs W3C Split. 2012
Internet Explorer Anime Girl
Cloud Computing