Negative Space: Internet
- Apple software stops connecting to the Internet; Firefox continues fine
- Starting in the last couple of days, I’ve been having an odd problem with some software being unable to connect to the Internet. They keep telling me I have no internet connection. The problem apps all seem to be Apple apps: Safari, iTunes, Software Update, Mail. But Firefox and the command line connect fine. Restarting mDNSResponder appears to (temporarily, I expect) fix the issue.
- Cache for Netscape
- Your browser can speed up your browsing experience by looking in its cache and not on the net when you visit a page you’ve recently visited.
- Collegium for Research in Interactive Technologies
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The Internet and computers provide—require—a new way of looking at documents and at the world. Cooperative Computing in the 1990s and Computers, Telecommunications, and Western Culture. From the World Conference on Computers in Education, Birmingham, England, 1995.
- Comic Books on the Net
- Comic books that the creators have put on-line, and a description of what you can expect to find at each site.
- Comic Strips on the Net
- A listing of comic strip collections that are on-line, sorted by author. These are all strips that the creators have put completely on-line.
- Computers, Telecommunications and Western Culture
- Personal computers and the individualistic design of international computer networks are founded in Western concepts of democracy, interpersonal communication and freedom. The popular preference for personal computers rather than central computers mirrors a characteristically Western political and cultural emphasis.
- Cooky Controversy
- You may have heard about the controversy over letting web sites store “cookies” in your web browser. There are privacy and security concerns over these cookies. These concerns are not as major as the detractors claim, but neither are they as minor as the boosters claim.
- Cooperative Computing in the Nineties
- Opportunities for Academic Computing Services
- Cross-Cultural Implications
- It has been widely held that cultural studies offers means by which members of different cultures may interact without prejudice. With the advent of global computer networks, it may also become important to facilitate cultural interaction while retaining cultural integrity. Otherwise, “culture shock” may easily become a domestic disease.
- Cultural Histories of the Internet
- Influences on the future and the history of cyberspace.
- Culture Shock
- What effects can a global Internet have on an individual’s sense of culture, and what can societies do about it?
- Education and the Internet
- Copying from a chalkboard to the Internet?
- How to use the Internet
- Ah, the old days, when real men didn’t use smileys and reasoned discussion, rather than top-posting, was What Everyone Did.
- In Your Face
- How to break laws and proposed laws on the Internet without breaking a sweat (depending on what makes you sweat). I’m not sure how much of this is actually illegal any more, but I’m leaving it up as a reminder of a time when it was a big deal to initiate a transmission across a telecommunications network.
- Internet and Programming Tutorials
- Internet and Programming Tutorials ranging from HTML, Javascript, and AppleScript, to Evaluating Information on the Net and Writing Non-Gendered Instructions.
- Internet users socialize less, talk to people more
- A new survey reveals that Internet users socialize less because they are spending more time with e-mail and message boards and less time watching television.
- IV. Challenge of the Computer Revolution
- The challenge, however, is to capitalize on these trends through cooperative computing efforts aimed at centering the use of computing tools in the disciplines themselves. Convenient departmental, preferably individual office access to campus library bibliographic resources as well as national data bases and data services is critical to scholarship and research.
- Javascript: A Plague of Windows
- Javascript is useful, but unfortunately easily abused by advertisers and egocentric web designers. You can often make a much better browsing experience by turning it off.
- Joy of Access
- What the net has to offer you. This tutorial is quite old, and hasn’t been updated since the last century. I’m leaving it available mostly for historical reasons. I’m not likely to write a newer version.
- The Kinder Gap
- Imagine there’s no countries? Imagine there are still countries, but no borders. What does that do to international rivalries and warfare?
- Mimsy Were the Borogoves
- The official blog of Jerry Stratton.
- Negative Space Spaced Out
- The best sites on the net, according to Negative Space.
- Neon Alley
- The Internet in literature, signs and portents of the future, and tutorials for today.
- Neon Alley Recommended Reading
- The best books about the Internet.
- Netscape is On Your Trail
- Some new browsers have an ESP feature turned on by default: they send the page you’re currently visiting off to a central database to find “related” pages similar to this one.
- Our Cybernetic Future 1945: As We May Blog
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As we go back in time for insight into the future, actual hardware recedes and the relationship between man and hardware comes to the fore. In 1945, Vannevar Bush laid out a vision of the Internet and desktop computers filled with the knowledge of mankind. And he recognized that this would not merely change how quickly we think, but how we think.
- PowerShift, Information, and the Internet
- Short review of Alvin Toffler’s PowerShift.
- Real Men Don't Use Smileys
- “Bottom line for netiquette is high signal, low noise, via civilized discussion and kiboshing miscommunication where possible.”
- Taking control of the vertical
- Take control of your browser windows, colors, and cache. Privacy and security are important on the web, and so is avoiding annoying and stressful pages.
- Use a Real FTP Program
- I’m a little surprised at how many download sites still use FTP, but they do. You can often download more easily by using a dedicated FTP software package.
- Using Negative Space
- Some simple things that may help you browsing this site.
- Webserving on Eight Megabytes a Day
- This article is a blast from the past. Yes, I used to run Negative Space on eight megabytes. Over a 14.4 modem. Uphill. Both ways. Presumably you could still do it, but it would have to be static files for the most part (and you might want to hook that Macintosh up to Ethernet).
- What do you mean, Super Highway?
- AOL is a busload of ebola victims? Who is this? And where can I get the drugs they’re taking?
- What Your Children are Doing on the Information Highway
- There’s something happening here, and you don’t know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones?
- Who Controls Your Colors?
- Some people make very strange choices when it comes to the color of their page. Blue text on a blue background, or worse.
More Information
- Internet Archive
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Includes an archive of some great public domain music, as well as an archive of the web back to 1996.
- The human use of human beings: Cybernetics and Society•
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There are works that come along once in an age and influence generations. Norbert Wiener’s Cybernetics is one of these works. Listen: “The dissemination of any scientific secret whatever is merely a matter of time. In this game a decade is a long time, and in the long run, there is no distinction between arming ourselves and arming our enemies.” Wiener shows a prophetic understanding of the nature of information, communication, and automated control of our environment. If you want a book that tells you about the future of the Internet, buy the one what was written in 1950.
