IT Essentials: RIP, Open Web

Revolutionary idealism has met the blunt force of capitalism

Tom Allen
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IT Essentials: RIP, Open Web

In 1996, John Perry Barlow did not set pen to paper. Instead, he typed a document that quickly spread to tens of thousands of fledgling websites around the world. This document, A Declaration of...

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