KPCB’s Mary Meeker presents the 2015 Internet Trends report, 20 years after the inaugural “The Internet Report” was first published in 1995.
197 slides but, as always, well worth it.
Tag Archives: internet
May 27, 2015
December 5, 2014
Next Version of Bluetooth Will Directly Connect to the Internet
I’m a couple days late in posting this, but this is huge news. Not requiring a dongle or hub for IoT devices is the way it should be.
August 3, 2012
Chinese Internet memes
Just because China blocks access to Facebook and Twitter, it doesn’t mean that the country is void of Internet memes — they’re just not quite the same as the ones I’m used to.
February 11, 2011
How the Internet gets inside us
Expertly written piece by Adam Gopnik discussing how people perceive the Internet and how that perception colours their behaviour.
A series of books explaining why books no longer matter is a paradox that Chesterton would have found implausible, yet there they are, and they come in the typical flavors: the eulogistic, the alarmed, the sober, and the gleeful.
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March 11, 2010
Ten years ago: "5 developments to watch in Internet technologies"
I love reading old articles.
The de facto coding scheme of Internet data is still 7-bit ASCII. But Unicode … is increasingly being supported in standards and software. Will English still be the dominant tongue on the Net in five years?
January 5, 2010
IPv4 usage
Well-researched piece by Ars Technica. Of 3,706,650,624 usable addresses only 722,000,000 (or 19,5 %) are still available.
The good news is that although a hundred thousand times more IPv6 than IPv4 space has been given out, 99.974 percent of it is still available.