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The Case for a Smaller, Calmer Web
Against the trend of bloated, attention-hungry pages, a quiet movement argues that the web was better when it was lighter — and tries to build that way.
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How a CDN Actually Makes the Web Faster
When a website loads quickly from the other side of the planet, a content delivery network is usually the reason. The trick is older than it sounds: keep copies close.
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The Slow Death of the Third-Party Cookie
For two decades, a tiny text file followed you across the web and quietly funded much of it. Its long-delayed retirement is reshaping online advertising.
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The 'Papers, Please' Era of the Internet Is Arriving
As age-verification laws spread, a FIRE essay warns the practical effect is identity verification for everyday browsing — and a serious hit to online privacy.
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IPv6 Is Still Winning in Slow Motion
The internet ran out of addresses years ago. The fix has been rolling out for over two decades, and it's one of the slowest successful migrations in tech history.
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DNS: The Phone Book That Runs Everything
Every web address you type triggers an invisible lookup so fundamental that when it breaks, the internet appears to vanish. Meet the system most users never notice.
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What Happens When the Whole Web Trusts One Company
The internet was designed to have no single point of failure. In practice, a handful of providers now sit underneath an enormous share of it.
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The Fediverse, Explained: Owning Your Social Graph
Imagine email, but for social media: many independent servers that all talk to each other, with no single company in charge. That's the bet behind the fediverse.
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Why Web Search Feels Worse — and What's Next
A lot of people feel that searching the web isn't as good as it used to be. The frustration is real, and the causes say something about the web's incentives.
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Net Neutrality: The Fight Over the Internet's Fast Lanes
Few internet policy debates get as heated as net neutrality. Underneath the politics is a simple question: should all data be treated equally?
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How Undersea Cables Carry Almost All Your Data
Satellites get the imagination, but the global internet runs along the ocean floor — through cables not much thicker than a garden hose.