Girl Geekette

DSL is a service that connects us to the internet with a high-speed connection over your phone line. When you order it, in a way it can be thought of as adding a feature to your phone line - like call waiting or caller ID. But a lot more goes into adding DSL to a phone line than just "turning on" the service.

With the evolution of Digg.com, we can see a new technology evolving. Digg combines social Bookmarking, Blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control. Unlike most news portals and websites, with Digg, it is the user that submit stories, reviews them and decides which stories go on the homepage, not an editor.

Since the introduction of Digg, already there has been a comparison made by an article done by Wired: ‘Digg Just Might Bury Slashdot‘. Now, the tables have been turned on Digg! There is a new Bookmarking/Blogging site very similar to Digg that is gaining strength. Where Digg focuses on Technology, Shoutwire - which is very similar to Digg- now has a broader range of topics that you can "Shout" instead of "Digg". Will this Bookmarking site feel the heat of Digg or give it a run for its money?

Comparison of Digg.com and Shoutwire.com categories

From the late 1980’s to the early 1990’s and on, a bit of history can be found at Textfiles.com. Here, historical collections of text documents are stored and archived in one place that can be seen by all. Whether searching for a bit of history or reading for education, all sorts of categories are archived on this website.

According to the disclaimer, this site is meant to be a collection of the textfiles written on BBSes in the 1980’s. Without this archive, a piece of history might have gone without notice. During the 1980’s and early 1990’s computers were just coming into households. Only a fraction of people owned a computer during that time. Very few knew the power of a BBS and what it was like to post on one. These textfiles give an insight as to what graphics and the "web" as we know it was like before the internet as we know it today existed. During this era, there was no "AOL" or "Google", but instead you dialed into a computer and selected text to read off of Bulletin Board Systems (BBSes) from a menu driven system from an operating system such as DOS or UNIX via the command line.