The internet exploded in the 90s from an obscure academic network into a world-changing total-environment, the ramifications of which we are still trying to understand. In that time, Thom Stark was living in the San Francisco Bay Area, reporting from the ground on the developing network technologies which undergird all of our modern communications. His website, StarkRealities.com, contains his nearly 100 columns from these formative years covering everything from technologies like Bluetooth, Wifi, IPv4 vs. IPv6, to social concerns regarding “netiquette”, privacy, spam, misleading marketing practices, and government regulation. They make up, for all intents and purposes, a comprehensive history text which never underestimates the reader. His work is a clear demonstration of how everything old is new again, for want of larger cultural absorption of what was, for early adopters, common knowledge.
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