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Linux is Everywhere

17 Feb 2022 2 minute read 4 comments Debesh Choudhury $0.03

In the year 1999, I decided to try GNU/Linux operating system for my desktop computer. It was one of the most remarkable experiments I did in my computing life. Then, I had applied for a Japanese Government Scholarship which I received. I was in Toky...

Bitcoin on the Same Adoption S-Curve As the Internet – Some Thoughts and Figures

16 Feb 2022 2 minute read 1 comment ssaurel $0.73

Bitcoin is a pseudonymous network where each user can have from 1 to n addresses. It is impossible to know the exact number of Bitcoin users at any given time. We can, however, get a good idea of the number of active addresses on the network. Based o...

Gopher - exploring the web before the web

14 Feb 2022 3 minute read 1 comment lingy $0.05

Today we are going to take a trip back in time, and see a little about a technology from the 90s, which was used to build environments similar to today's web pages: Gopher. Gopher is a protocol that serves to make the equivalent of today's websites (...

What are the different iterations of the Web?

9 Feb 2022 4 minute read 7 comments Chriss $0.18

Hello everyone! For a few months now, if not a few years, we have been seeing a lot of new words appear in the language of the "Crypto Sphere". One of these words that we are particularly interested in is "Web3". What does this word refer to? If we t...

Choose Brave as Your Default Web Browser

6 Feb 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Debesh Choudhury $0.07

What is your default web browser? Most people use computers and mobile phones with preinstalled proprietary operating systems. They use either the proprietary software vendor's default web browser or use their own choicest web browsers. I stopped us...

Bots Represent 64% Of Internet Traffic

5 Feb 2022 3 minute read 19 comments Scott Cunningham $1.20

Do you ever get the feeling like you could be interacting with an AI or perhaps the number of likes on a post seems way too inaccurate? 64% of internet traffic in 2021 came from bots so let’s talk about what that means and what the future holds. htt...

Trial of Unavoidable-Unknowable Vulnerability

21 Jan 2022 6 minute read 0 comments naykdhodlr $0.02

  Since the advent of global `connectivity’ whereby via one’s computer and mobile cellphone, access to the world has become limitless; however, as long as you had a reliable Internet or Cellular Server connection. First some background for those bor...

THE SLAVI REVOLUTION

14 Jan 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Dayve___ $0.02

What's it about this new technology that has got everyone talking? It is no news that DeFi stormed the market by surprise with quality fundamentals and products while keeping true decentralization which relies on peer-to-peer and self-executing smar...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation - the future of digital privacy, free speech, and the open web

30 Dec 2021 1 minute read 3 comments Renaissance man $0.08

  A really short post today, one that encourages you to support the Electronic Frontier Foundation in its on-going effort to help us all secure a future of digital privacy, free speech, and the open web. It’s currently looking to meet its year-end ch...

Thanks for the Viewership!

13 Dec 2021 4 minute read 2 comments SweptOverNiagara $0.03

 So far in the last 30 days, my blog 'The Brave New World' has gotten 4,266 views and I've gained several new subscribers. Surpassing 4,000 views was a great milestone for my blog and on top of that, got 73 thumbs ups versus 7 thumbs down. I've gotte...