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No matter how benevolent a dictatorship is, it's still a dictatorship, and subject to the dictator's whims. We must demand that the owners and leaders of tech platforms be fair and good - but we must also be prepared for them to fail at this, sometimes catastrophically. 1/ 
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
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1. It was 1995 and David Bohnett and John Rezner founded the Beverly Hills Internet hosting company, later renamed #GeoCities.
The original concept of the service was to create a virtual community of Web sites organized into "Internet cities."
The original concept of the service was to create a virtual community of Web sites organized into "Internet cities."
2. During the registration process, new members would choose the neighborhood to which they wanted to belong.
This neighborhood became part of the member's Web address along with a sequential "street address" number assigned to make the URL unique
This neighborhood became part of the member's Web address along with a sequential "street address" number assigned to make the URL unique
3. (e.g., geocities.com/RodeoDrive/num…).
In 1999 GeoCities was purchased by Yahoo! and ten years later, on October 26, 2009, Yahoo! permanently shut down the GeoCities service.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Ge…
In 1999 GeoCities was purchased by Yahoo! and ten years later, on October 26, 2009, Yahoo! permanently shut down the GeoCities service.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Ge…
De a poquito estoy subiendo notas viejas, editadas y (espero) mejoradas. Nunca estuve satisfecho con esta de #Hitman2, pero después de borrarle 5000 caracteres y sumarle 8000 más, refleja lo que siento sobre el mejor juego de la generación: ignacioesains.com/post/análisis-…
#HypnospaceOutlaw acaba de salir en Nintendo Switch, y hay una versión actualizada en Steam. Ni idea qué cambiará, pero el juego original para mí ya era brillante. Acá va mi análisis, con un par de reflexiones sobre la era #Geocities. ignacioesains.com/post/análisis-…
Última (la semana que viene espero sumar algunas más): #ReturnOfTheObraDinn es el mejor juego de detectives de todos los tiempos. Y tiene una traducción excelente al español, algo raro para un indie. ignacioesains.com/post/análisis-…
