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How we lost the web
177 links saved from 2005 to 2026; 165 with a note, 96 in a Weekly Thing.
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- eff.org 8, medium.com 6, gigaom.com 4, scripting.com 4, seths.blog 4
2026
2025
- Personal Business
- Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
- Cloudflare’s 2025 Annual Founders’ Letter
- Dawn of a new era in Search: Balancing innovation, competition, and public good
- The future of the internet is likely smaller communities, with a focus on curated experiences
- The hidden world beneath the shadows of YouTube's algorithm
2024
- Who owns your words?
- Andrew Grove Interview - CEO of Intel - Quotes about Corporatoins and the Internet
- Interview: The Real Costs of Free Search Engines
- Future of Internet in the age of AI
- No, the internet isn’t forever. And that’s a bad thing.
- Manifesto for a Humane Web
- We can have a different web
- Bill Gates, Man United and 20 other sites that ban linking to them
- The web is not dying
- Open Source Quality Institutes
- Defending Access to the Decentralized Web
2023
- How to fix the internet
- Places on the web
- We need more of Richard Stallman, not less
- ANTI-META FEDI PACT
- Ian Bremmer: The next global superpower isn't who you think
- What’s a “techie”?
- The web's most important decision
- The Free Software Foundation is dying
- Stand with Internet Archive as we fight for the digital rights of all libraries
- Shields up
- The Fediverse is Already Dead
- On Section 230 and the Dream of a More Human Internet
- Is Mastodon a commons?
2022
2021
- 100 years of whatever this will be
- Pushing Back Against Privacy Infringement On The Web
- A thank-you note to the net
- What the ephemerality of the Web means for your hyperlinks
- How the cookie poisoned the Web
- Moderation in Infrastructure
- Why Generation X will save the web - Hi, I'm Heather Burns.
- Online speech and publishing
2020
- Section 230 is Good, Actually
- Web Conversations With the Year 2000 | by Paul Ford | Nov, 2020
- How 9/11 looked on a newly created Internet on that day | by Larry Kramer | Sep, 2020
- Preserve the People’s Post Office: Let Us Do Meaningful Postal Reform
- mnot’s blog: RFC8890: The Internet is for End Users
- The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (of Technology)
- ICANN Board Withholds Consent for a Change of Control of the Public Interest Registry (PIR)
- The Internet
- Today Google stops funding climate change deniers
- Into the Personal-Website-Verse · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer
2019
- Contract for the Web
- inessential: You Choose
- Breaking: Private Equity company acquires .Org registry - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News
- The Deletion of Yahoo! Groups and Archive Team's Rescue Effort
- Tech and Liberty
- Why Richard Stallman doesn’t matter
- Joint statement on the GNU Project — 2019 — Blog — GNU Guix
- Richard Stallman and the Fall of the Clueless Nerd
- You can heal the internet
- Bond - Mary Meeker's Internet Trends 2019
- 25 Years Later: Interview with Linus Torvalds
- Lawrence Lessig On What MMOs Can Teach Us About Real Life Politics
- Re-decentralizing the Web, for good this time
2018
- From the Hyperlink to the Stream: Hossein Derakshan’s Critique of the Internet in the Age of Social Media - Study Hacks
- The State of Technology at the End of 2018
- Beyond Digital Ethics - Study Hacks
- Zero Tolerance for Zero Tolerance
- Scripting News: The Internet is going the wrong way
- Humans broke the internet, understanding them better might help fix it — SAGE Ocean | Big Data, New Tech, Social Science
- Don’t Fix Facebook. Replace It.
- A radical proposal to keep your personal data safe | Richard Stallman | Opinion
- The Missing Building Blocks of the Web – Anil Dash
- A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
- Web Trend Map 2018
- The techlash against Amazon, Facebook and Google—and what they can do - A memo to big tech
- Legends of the Ancient Web
2017
- The FCC just killed net neutrality
- Google is pulling YouTube off the Fire TV and Echo Show
- Tim O'Reilly's WTF? A book that tells us how to keep the technology baby and throw out the Big Tech bathwater / Boing Boing
- The End Of Net Neutrality As We Know It
- FCC unveils plan to repeal net neutrality rules
- A Year of Tech Solidarity | Civicist
- Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: 'The system is failing' | Technology
- Al Franken Just Gave the Speech Big Tech Has Been Dreading
- André Staltz - The Web began dying in 2014, here's how
- An open letter to the W3C Director, CEO, team and membership
- Who Owns My Availability?
- A Serf on Google’s Farm
- Why We Terminated Daily Stormer
- The e-mail Larry Page should have written to James Damore
- Jeff Atwood | Civilized Discourse... But How?
- The W3C has overruled members' objections and will publish its DRM for videos / Boing Boing
- Tracy Chou, leading Silicon Valley engineer, explains why every tech worker needs a humanities education
- ‘The Internet Is Broken’: @ev Is Trying to Salvage It
- Supreme Court limits locations of patent lawsuits
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
- Rebuilding the Web We Lost
- The Web We Lost
- The Antifragility of the Web
- Your criticisms are completely wrong: Stallman on software patents, 20 years in
- Why We Have An Open Wireless Movement
- The Future Is Open - Think Quarterly by Google
- What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else
- How can we build a city that thinks like the web?
- Web freedom faces greatest threat ever, warns Google's Sergey Brin
- 24 February 2012, baked by Ben Ward @ The Pastry Box Project
- Supreme Court Says Congress May Re-Copyright Public Domain Works
- Who in Congress Supports SOPA and PIPA/PROTECT-IP?
- The message from the Wikipedia Blackout: Please leave the Internet alone
- Tim O’Reilly: Why I’m fighting SOPA
- In SOPA, PIPA protest, Wikipedia to black out
2011
- I agree to .
- Own your identity
- Why the Open Web Matters
- How I Learned to Live Google-free
- Berners-Lee, Cool URIs don't change (W3C)
- Wikipedia And The Death Of The Expert
- Lessig: Copyright isn't just hurting creativity: it's killing science Motherboard
- The Users are the Suppliers
- FreedomBox
- Defining Internet “freedom”: Ars interviews Senator Al Franken
- I Have Seen the Future and I Am Opposed
- Does Assange have an agenda?
- Net Neutrality for Writers: Its All About the Leverage
- JFK On Secrecy And Censorship
2010
- Net neutrality is hypocrisy
- Bill of Rights in Cyberspace, amended
- Copyright in a Networked World
- Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality
- Like Democracy, the Web Needs to be Defended, Its Creator Says
- EFF Discusses the Future of Internet Privacy at UN Internet Governance Forum
- Net neutrality expert calls Apple the number one threat to Internet freedom
- The 'Dancing Baby' Lawsuit Will Shape Future of Fair Use
- Terms of Services Kinda Like Open Licenses – But Evil
- A Review of Verizon and Google's Net Neutrality Proposal
- Dan Gillmor on the Google-Verizon Net Neutrality Plan
2009
- Should Page Speed Influence Google PageRank?
- Slowpokes to get penalized in Google search rankings?
- Public Citizen: In Google We Trust? Think Again
- Tim Berners-Lees One Regret Regarding the Web
- Larry Lessig on laws that choke creativity
- The Internet is incomplete, says its co-designer, Vinton Cerf
- For whom the Google tolls