Out of the Matrix: Early Days of the Web (1991) 30 years ago, the web emerged from the Matrix to change the world. But have we forgotten its original vision? Daniel Kehoe recalls the early days of the web.
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21 Dec 2020
The web is thirty years old, counting from the date the first web server was launched in December 1990. I first saw it emerge on August 6th, 1991, when the web was publicly announced. But after 30 years, I think we’ve lost sight of its original purpose. Here’s what I mean.
In 1991 I was writing for
NeXTWORLD magazine, which was a lot of fun because I got to work with, and write about, people who were doing fascinating things with computer technology. Working for
Who is Jeffrey Rosen, who will lead the Justice Department for Trumpâs endgame?
By Charlie Savage New York Times,Updated December 15, 2020, 10:53 p.m.
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Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen.Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
WASHINGTON â When the deputy attorney general, Jeffrey Rosen, testified at his confirmation hearing in April 2019, he seemed to pledge to keep politics out of law enforcement decisions, telling the Senate: âI would expect in all prosecutorial matters to proceed on the facts and the law and not any improper political influences.â
But two months later, Rosen sent an unusual letter to prison officials who had planned to send President Donald Trumpâs former campaign chairman Paul Manafort to the notorious Rikers Island prison while awaiting a state trial after he was prosecuted on federal crimes, as similar convicts are routinely handled. After Rosenâs intervention, they changed course and housed Manafort in a less unpleasant
I started this project because I randomly came across a Fortune 100 list and saw Walmart made $523B in 2020. One thing led to another, and I suddenly found myself curious about every company on every Fortune 100 list, and well, here we are.
Methodology
I scrapped 66 websites (found here, here, and here), cleaned and labelled the database by myself (for those curious it was a nightmare). I will be making the database free and publicly available sometime next week (week commencing 14th), or the week after (week commencing the 21st).
I did not take into account mergers and acquisitions e.g I left AT&T and Time Warner as separate companies. However when doing aggregate analysis I will refer to the current parent company / new organisation (if applicable) e.g I will refer to Exxon (prior to its merge with Mobil) as ExxonMobil, for ease of understanding and clearer analysis.