Assorted Materials: Johnny Ryan

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The Big Idea: the death of the center and the new centrifugal trend

Posted by: johnnyryan on: 21 September 2009

Now that it is complete, a clear narrative has emerged from the forthcoming book. The  Internet, like many readers of the book itself, is a child of the industrial era. Long before digital communications, the steam engine, telegraph pole, and coalmine quickened the pace of the world. Industrialized commerce, communications and war spun the globe [...]

Internet growth before WWW

Posted by: johnnyryan on: 5 June 2009

Some figures on Internet growth from 1981 to 1993. This is growth in the Internet before WWW.

Date—-Hosts
08/81—213
10/85—1,961
10/89—159,000
10/93—-2,056,000

Update on next book – on the history of the Net

Posted by: johnnyryan on: 23 December 2008

This is among the most interesting things I have done yet. In September 2009, I am due


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I'm interested in 4 things: A) THE HISTORY OF THE INTERNET AND ITS LESSONS FOR THE FUTURE; B) Ireland’s Digital Competitiveness; c) the Political Impact of the Internet; D) How ideas - including violent political ideas - are communicated online.