Category: Internet Usage
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Goodbye to an Era
In the days after the demise of cassette tapes and before MP3s existed there were basically two ways get your music legally: You could listen to the radio of course… but the vast majority of people purchased it on Compact Disc (CDs). Tower Records reigned supreme but there were many other places to purchase them……
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Happy Birthday WWW, and Thank you TIM!
According to this morning’s Google Doodle, today is the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web. On this day thirty years ago – March 12, 1989 – Tim Berners-Lee turned on his first web server at the CERN labs in Switzerland. In doing so he changed the world. Tim had a few thoughts about what…
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Usage Based Billing
I am probably taking a very unpopular position on this issue, but as you may (or may not) know, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is currently holding hearings regarding Usage-Based Billing (UBB) for Internet Service Providers (ISPs). On the Working World Blog there is a piece about it that I read with interest.…
The World According to Mitch 