You’ve likely already noticed that many websites, including the Dynamic Website Kits that OPLIN manages, now have URLs that often begin with “https://” rather than…
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OPLIN 4cast #469: The first website
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How old is the World Wide Web? The safest answer to that is probably, “At least 25 years old.” Tim Berners-Lee wrote theoretical descriptions and…
Last week, the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) posted a message stating that they had “…approved the following document: ‘Hypertext Transfer Protocol version 2’…as Proposed…
OPLIN 4cast #425: Deep links
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One of the fundamental building blocks of the World Wide Web has always been the hyperlink, the code that allows you to jump from web…
Last Friday, in a progress report on “Product Focus,” Yahoo included three sentences announcing that “our business has evolved and at the end of 2014…
Since about the turn of the century, when the World Wide Web became a regular part of most people’s lives, the conventional wisdom has been…
OPLIN 4Cast #192: Is the Web Dead?
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Last week, Wired magazine ran a pair of articles by Chris Anderson (who wrote The Long Tail) and well-known journalist Michael Wolff under the heading…