Negative Space: Internet
- Cache for Netscape
- Your browser can speed up your browsing experience by looking in its cache and not on the net when you visit a page you’ve recently visited.
- Collegium for Research in Interactive Technologies
- The Internet and computers provide—require—a new way of looking at documents and at the world. Cooperative Computing in the 1990s and Computers, Telecommunications, and Western Culture. From the World Conference on Computers in Education, Birmingham, England, 1995.
- Comic Books on the Net
- Comic books that the creators have put on-line, and a description of what you can expect to find at each site.
- Comic Strips on the Net
- A listing of comic strip collections that are on-line, sorted by author.
- Computers, Telecommunications and Western Culture
- Personal computers and the individualistic design of international computer networks are founded in Western concepts of democracy, interpersonal communication and freedom. The popular preference for personal computers rather than central computers mirrors a characteristically Western political and cultural emphasis.
- Cooky Controversy
- You may have heard about the controversy over letting web sites store “cookies” in your web browser. There are privacy and security concerns over these cookies. These concerns are not as major as the detractors claim, but neither are they as minor as the boosters claim.
- Cooperative Computing in the Nineties
- Opportunities for Academic Computing Services
- Cross-Cultural Implications
- It has been widely held that cultural studies offers means by which members of different cultures may interact without prejudice. With the advent of global computer networks, it may also become important to facilitate cultural interaction while retaining cultural integrity. Otherwise, “culture shock” may easily become a domestic disease.
- Cultural Histories of the Internet
- Influences on the future and the history of cyberspace.
- Culture Shock
- All cultures are continuously changing, and today these changes are both rapid and deep. What effects will an international individual-oriented communications network have on cultural change within cultural entities?
- Education and the Internet
- Copying from a chalkboard to the Internet?
- Internet and Programming Tutorials
- Internet and Programming Tutorials ranging from HTML, Javascript, and AppleScript, to Evaluating Information on the Net and Writing Non-Gendered Instructions.
- IV. Challenge of the Computer Revolution
- The challenge, however, is to capitalize on these trends through cooperative computing efforts aimed at centering the use of computing tools in the disciplines themselves. Convenient departmental, preferably individual office access to campus library bibliographic resources as well as national data bases and data services is critical to scholarship and research.
- Javascript: A Plague of Windows
- Javascript is useful, but unfortunately easily abused by advertisers and egocentric web designers. You can often make a much better browsing experience by turning it off.
- Joy of Access
- What the net has to offer you. This tutorial is quite old, and hasn’t been updated since the last century. I’m leaving it available mostly for historical reasons. I’m not likely to write a newer version.
- Lawbreaker
- How to break laws and proposed laws on the Internet without breaking a sweat (depending on what makes you sweat).
- Negative Space Spaced Out
- The best sites on the net, according to Negative Space.
- Neon Alley
- The Internet in literature, signs and portents of the future, and tutorials for today.
- Neon Alley Recommended Reading
- The best books about the Internet.
- Netscape is On Your Trail
- Some new browsers have an ESP feature turned on by default: they send the page you’re currently visiting off to a central database to find “related” pages similar to this one.
- PowerShift, Information, and the Internet
- Short review of Alvin Toffler’s PowerShift.
- Taking control of the vertical
- Take control of your browser windows, colors, and cache. Privacy and security are important on the web, and so is avoiding annoying and stressful pages.
- Use a Real FTP Program
- I’m a little surprised at how many download sites still use FTP, but they do. You can often download more easily by using a dedicated FTP software package.
- Using Negative Space
- Some simple things that may help you browsing this site.
- Webserving on Eight Megabytes a Day
- This article is a blast from the past. Yes, I used to run Negative Space on eight megabytes. Over a 14.4 modem. Uphill. Both ways. Presumably you could still do it, but it would have to be static files for the most part (and you might want to hook that Macintosh up to Ethernet).
- What Your Children are Doing on the Information Highway
- There’s something happening here, and you don’t know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones?
- Who Controls Your Colors?
- Some people make very strange choices when it comes to the color of their page. Blue text on a blue background, or worse.