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Tim Berners-Lee, Giant Global Graph (2007)

A new vision for the web where the users master their data and link them to everybody's benefit in a giant global graph.

The 34th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization

The 34th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization will be held at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada from August 17-21, 2026. A PhD school will take place on August 17-18, 2026.

The Together Project

What if we could actually see the acknowledgement graph that connects humans and communities in a hidden economic web?

Context Graph: It’s time to bring context back to the web

The largest button on a modern browser is the back button. Trips to the web are short. Enter a search, get a result, click back, then try…

Kill The Internet IRL in Austin TX

A night of philosophizing in the digital age of chaos and decay. Discussions with three online public philosophers on technology, privacy, and the state of our internet enmeshed civilization.The D...

The rise of community-curated knowledge networks

The Internet put thousands of years of human thought at our fingertips, and enabled billions of people to create content. At least 2.5…

The End of the Revolutionary Internet

The revolutionary internet is over, and we don’t have much to show for it. A new start is out there, somewhere.

Sustainable Web Manifesto

“If the Internet was a country, it would be the 13th largest polluter”

Over 50 Percent of the Internet Is Now AI Slop, New Data Finds

New research from the firm Graphite found that around half of all articles on the internet are AI generated.

The New Internet: Tailscale's Vision for the Future of Connectivity

Tailscale's CEO, Avery Pennarun, explores the future of the internet, discussing the evolution of networking, the issues with today's complex systems, and how Tailscale is simplifying connectivity for developers with a new, more efficient approach. Discover the vision for a New Internet.

The New Internet: Tailscale's Vision for the Future of Connectivity

Tailscale's CEO, Avery Pennarun, explores the future of the internet, discussing the evolution of networking, the issues with today's complex systems, and how Tailscale is simplifying connectivity for developers with a new, more efficient approach. Discover the vision for a New Internet.

Historical pragmatism and the internet

This article argues that the literature describing the internet revolution in the 1990s was characterized by the rhetoric of the technological sublime. This rhetoric suffered from three fatal flaws: (1) it was not sufficiently grounded in the historical development of technology; (2) it viewed the internet in isolation, failing to consider the wider technological context; and (3) it failed to examine the internet in view of the social, economic, religious and political circumstances of its users. Several examples from history are cited, demonstrating that changes in various systems for the production, dissemination and preservation of cultural information both border and deborder the world. The article suggests that if internet researchers take a pragmatic, historically grounded approach, they will discover that the introduction of internet technology can be seen to have similar consequences. While the technology overcomes many boundaries (of space and time, politics and economics), other social borders may be created at the same time. It is easier to see old boundaries coming down than to see new ones being erected. Rather than being swept by utopian or dystopian enthusiasms, the article insists that the really interesting discoveries are to be made in locating the subtle social shifts taking place, relatively unnoticed, as a consequence of technological change.

Home - Green Web Foundation

We need a fossil free internet by 2030. The internet is the world's biggest coal powered machine, and this is bug in the system we can fix.

The Zero Click Internet

The internet is undergoing the biggest change since its inception. It's huge. And there is no going back. The web is changing into the Zero Click Internet,...

The Attention Forum: October 23/24th 2025

The internet was initially sold to us as a force for connection – a borderless, democratizing set of technologies that would amplify voices, allow us to spread ideas, and strengthen civil society.