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The term was “Web 2.0” was first coined in 1999 by technologist Darcy DiNucci, [who wrote](https://substack.com/redirect/e4cd5ce6-e938-4f18-b94a-2aa21489a556?j=eyJ1IjoiMXlmdTFqIn0.qYv5NVQwodvs9yAW1b9IqXxz-UTiPAUp4JXaRMXUArU) , “the first glimmerings of Web 2.0 are beginning to appear, and we are just starting to see how that embryo might develop. The Web will be understood not as screenfuls of text and graphics but as a transport mechanism, the ether through which interactivity happens.”
Dumb and Shameful Until It's Not
Garbage Day
In late nineteenth-century Boston, this public health argument— that their own families would be safer and healthier because fewer people around them would be sick-was what convinced the wealthier residents to use their taxes to pay for a municipal water system and, new for the time, a sewage system to take the polluted wastewater away.
How Infrastructure Works
Deb Chachra
Human memory is squishy, and that's great. You retain facts + feelings that help you make future decisions and everything else is integrated into smaller and smaller summaries until it fades away entirely. I spent years clinging to every experience wanting not to forget anything, and being horrified when I couldn't remember. I documented everything. I wanted my memory to work more like infinite dropbox storage and less like a tool, evolved over millions of years, to keep me safe and making good choices.
Ask HN: How Did You Build Up Your Personal Knowledge Base? | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
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