On March 12, 1989, Tim Berners-Lee (later knighted so now known as Sir Tim...) published the first document describing HTML (the language used to format web pages) and HTTP (the computer protocol that allows web browsers to retrieve web pages). So, that means the Web (or at least its core technologies) turns 25 today. Without Sir Tim's work, we would not have Google, Netflix, Facebook or, of course, Wondercafe.

I think my spelling skills have decreased because of the internet.

Certain words that used to stand out at looking wrong no longer do.  Maybe I've even picked up a few!  I hope not!

ect used to be a big pet peeve, now I barely notice

rediculous no longer seems ridiculous

Who knows about grammar.

At least I had developed some decent spelling skills.  I don't know what's going to happen to kids as they get older.

The son of a friend of mine is studying at the Masters degree level in public policy at George Washington University in Washington, DC. As a project for

his statistics class, he wanted to test was that free and available broadband internet access would improve academic performance as measured by students' educational test scores.

Everyone, from his professor to his colleagues, liked the idea and thought the data would bear that out. It did not. Statistically, at least, it had a net effect of zero.

http://www.sync-blog.com/sync/2012/11/is-the-internet-making-trust-obsol...

Some interesting ideas in the article, I think.

Do you trust the internet?  Has the internet made you more or less trusting?

I have to move my primary email address because we are probably switching ISPs (from Bell to cable from either Teksavvy or Distributel) and I use a sympatico.ca email address that comes with our Bell Internet.

To avoid this in future, I want to use a "net neutral" address that isn't tied to a provider. I know about the common options (Hotmail and its derivatives such as outlook.com and live.ca/com, GMail, Yahoo! Mail, etc.) and have accounts at a couple of them that I might use, though for various reasons I may not.

Hi folks, I've been on a long break from the forum, longest ever for me, and lately my thoughts have been on the topic of whether we are all truly alone, and the nature of connections. I have been feeling amplified isolation lately, and seeking out sources of education on the topic, and relief (sometimes desperately). Today I turned to Wondercafe and did a search, which led me to Youth Worker's thread. I read some helpful advice there, including my own, which I had forgotten I'd written.

Very powerful video. A new twist on "We Are Not Alone"?

A lot of media companies are taking big hits from the Internet.  You have probably read about the music business and the explosion of pirated music.  The iTunes store partly solved the problem, but the glory days seem gone for music.  Entertainers must go on tours to earn a high income now.

So, who's your cellphone plan with? Are you happy with them? What are the options where you live?

Streetview is now available on Google earth and Google maps for some Canadian cities.  So far today I've been all over the place in Halifax-Dartmouth.  One of my coworker's kids left the door open at his house on the day the google car drove by.  I checked out my old neighborhoods in Toronto and Ottawa and took a little tour around Calgary.  I found it easier to navigate in Google maps than on Google earth.  Just grap the little yellow guy (if he is grey there is no streetview where you are) above the zoom bar on the left and plunk him down on the street where you w