How eBay became a harbinger of the Internet to come. [via The Guardian]
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The Case for Digital Public Infrastructure
Ethan Zuckerman presents his vision for an internet built for public benefit, not for profit. [via Knight Institute]

2020 on the Internet, in Review
For New Year’s, Reddit produced this delightful montage of what happened on the site, and on the Internet, in 2020. [via reddit]

The Decentralized Web of Hate
As the decentralized web develops, we must prepare for its exploitation by neo-nazis. [via Emmi Bevensee]

The Internet’s Many Branches
On the history of the Top Level Domain. [via Tedium]

Le Internet Medley
A blast from the past. The roots of Internet culture. [via The GAG Quartet]

The MySpace Dragon Hoard
Internet Archive recovers trove of lost MySpace music. [via archive.org]

Remembering r/place
2 years ago to the day, a million people spontaneously sprouted an Internet masterpiece. [via This Exists]