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Really interesting story from Myanmar: This Is What Happens When Millions Of People Suddenly Get The Internet (Sheera Frenkel)

The internet brought Donald Trump to Myanmar. Or, at least that’s how Shar Ya Wai first remembers hearing about the Republican president-elect.

“One day, nobody knew him. Then, everyone did. That’s what the internet is. It takes people who say crazy things and makes them famous,” the 19-year-old student said.

Like most people in this country of 50 million, which only recently opened up to the outside world, Shar Ya Wai is new to the internet. And on this day, she had walked purposefully into a phone shop in central Yangon to buy her first smartphone, a simple model by China’s Huawei that is popular among her friends…

Source: This Is What Happens When Millions Of People Suddenly Get The Internet – BuzzFeed News

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Very interesting Read on Digital Longevity: The Inventors of the Internet Are Trying to Build a Truly Permanent Web (Klint Finley)

IF YOU WANTED to write a history of the Internet, one of the first things you would do is dig into the email archives of Vint Cerf. In 1973, he co-created the protocols that Internet servers use to communicate with each other without the need for any kind of centralized authority or control. He has spent the decades since shaping the Internet’s development, most recently as Google’s “chief Internet evangelist.”

Thankfully, Cerf says he has archived about 40 years of old email—a first-hand history of the Internet stretching back almost as far as the Internet itself. But you’d also have a pretty big problem: a whole lot of that email you just wouldn’t be able to open…

Source: The Inventors of the Internet Are Trying to Build a Truly Permanent Web | WIRED

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Very useful: 15 Mind-Blowing Statistics Reveal What Happens on the Internet in a Minute (Larry Kim)

Consider this: Every minute of every day, staggering amounts of data are being generated as consumers connect to, search for, watch, create, download, and shop for content.
Making sense of what all this data means is critical for the success of your company or brand.
So what are the 3.2 billion people who make up today’s global internet population doing online?…

Source: 15 Mind-Blowing Statistics Reveal What Happens on the Internet in a Minute — All Things Marketing and Entrepreneurship — Medium

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Good background analysis: Why Google beat Yahoo in the war for the Internet (Mohit Aron)

As we witness what may be the final days of Yahoo as an independent business, consider how just a decade ago it was running neck-and-neck with Google, now one of the world’s largest companies by market value.

It would be silly for anyone to claim they could have predicted how these two businesses would compare today, but we can still learn something from examining what sent their fortunes in such different directions…

Source: Why Google beat Yahoo in the war for the Internet | TechCrunch

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State of Connectivity 2015: Facebook’s Report on Global Internet Access (Facebook Newsroom)

State of Connectivity 2015: A Report on Global Internet Access, the second annual study by Facebook, takes a close look at the current state of global internet connectivity, how it has changed since 2014 and how we can use the data…

Source: State of Connectivity 2015: A Report on Global Internet Access | Facebook Newsroom

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