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The Pirate Bay Goes Retro With 2003 Layout
When The Pirate Bay started back in 2003 the hardware setup was initially really primitive. The site was hosted in Mexico, where Gottfrid hosted the site on a server owned by the company he was working for at the time. The site later moved to Sweden, where Fredrik hosted the tracker on his laptop for a while, but, as the site grew, it had to move on to a more powerful setup.
Continue reading »GeoCities gets faceful of wrecking ball
How many blinking GIFs will be saved? Yahoo! is demolishing GeoCities today, a decade after acquiring the ticky-tacky build-your-own-website service for $3.57bn in stock.…
Continue reading »Rural broadband = more jobs, better salaries
Is broadband access good for rural America? In case there were any doubts, the Department of Agriculture put them to rest in a new report. The study contends that rural counties in the United States that embraced broadband adoption at the start of this decade enjoy access to more jobs than those that did not.
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