Don’t Worry, I’m From the Internet
A presentation at Kitchen Stories Teach & Tell by Oscar
I want to tell you a story.
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Fifty percent of humanity are connected to the Web.
The Web we lost … … is not just design.
The Web is a plethora of awesomeness.
The Web is a plethora of creepiness.
The Web is a plethora of everything. And we have to preserve this.
The Web is for everyone.
The Web is for everyone?
Harassment isn’t harmless.
« The question to answer isn’t, ‹Have I made a place where people have the freedom to express themselves?› Instead we have to ask, ‹Have I made a place where everyone has the safety to exist?›» Tatiana Mac — Canary in a Coal Mine https://alistapart.com/article/canary-in-a-coal-mine-how-tech-provides-platforms-for-hate
« We must protect safety over speech.» Tatiana Mac — Canary in a Coal Mine
Doing the Right Thing
« If one company, like Slack or Airbnb, decides to do something about the role it’s going to play, it creates a perverse kind of FOMO for the rest: Fear of missing out of doing the right thing and standing on the right side of history.» Tatiana Mac — Canary in a Coal Mine
This is not only a tech problem. You can’t /kickban hate.
Means of Production
What is a computer?
« Was ist bloß passiert?» Knochenfabrik — Was ist bloß passiert Ameisenstaat, Vitaminepillen Records, 1997
« The most significant change they made, arguably, was semantic: programming, they decided, would heretofore be known as engineering.» Claire L. Evans — Broad Band Portfolio/Penguin; 2018; p. 77
Building Blocks
Hypertext Markup Language
Cascading Style Sheets
Java Script
Structure Layout Interaction
Building Blocks Actual blocks
View source
Tags are the Building Blocks of HTML
So, hmm, you write markup and then …?
HTML pages are just boxes.
And what’s up with all the nice things?
💻 Put-Something-in-the Internet-Already-Time 💻
Danke. Thank you. Merci. спасибо. Oscar Braunert code & design www.ovl.design o@ovl.design
Resources
The following resources were mentioned during the presentation or are useful additional information.
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‘People think that data is in the cloud, but it’s not. It’s in the ocean.’
A piece on deep-sea cable, building the backbone of the Internet
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World’s Biggest Data Breaches & Hacks
Interactive visualization of data breaches
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Landlord 2.0: Tech’s New Rentier Capitalism
What platform capitalism means for data sovereignty
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The Web we Lost
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Canary in a Coal Mine
Must read on the role tech plays in providing hate groups with means to express themselves
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Pinterest Restricts Vaccine Search Results to Curb Spread of Misinformation
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Slack removes hate groups
Blog post after Slack removed several white supremacy groups
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Facebook Bans Faith Goldy After HuffPost Report On White Nationalism Content
Facebook is now also removing hate speech. If you report on it.
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Meet Antifa’s Secret Weapon Against Far-Right Extremists
Taken from Wired’s edition on free speech on Megan Squire, who collects data about hate groups and makes it accessible to Antifa groups.
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Human Computer
Wiki article about humans who were computers
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#WomenThatDid: Ada Lovelace
Short introduction of Ada Lovelace
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Six Women Programmed the First Computer—And Didn’t Get the Credit
Article about the ENIAC six
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Broad Band – The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
Book about women‘s contribution to the Internet (and programming in general). Begins with human computers and Ada Lovelace. Very good read and a great introduction into the history of computing.
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The Secret History of Women in Coding
NYT time feature on the contributions and roles of women in the history of Coding
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Women Who Code
Global non-profit to encourage women to get into tech
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Vue Vixens
Vue Vixens are foxy people who identify as women and who want to learn Vue.js to make websites and mobile apps
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How browser rendering works — behind the scenes
Explaining what actually happens in a browser to show a website
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Entering the Quantum Era—How Firefox got fast again and where it’s going to get faster
More specific look in Firefox’s engine
