Egypt are prepared to launch the worlds first Arabic web domain, in a stunning move that will open the web up to several more languages and possible domains, the communications minister has stated.

Tarek Kamel, Egypt’s communications minister, has stated that the new domain will end in .masr in the Arabic language, which translates as .Egypt. He says that “it is a great moment for [Egypt]… The internet now speaks Arabic”. He added that the move will “offer new avenues for innovation, investment and growth”. Registration for said addresses will begin at 0000 on Tuesday, after a formal announcement stating the move.

This was made possible due to a move by internet regulations authority Icann to allow non-latin domain names containing special characters. Domains will soon be allowed in other languages such as Chinese or Japanese.

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Well, to a point, it can be said – the internet makes you respond differently to different content. Research has proven that people respond in a more intelligent, mature fashion and react better to information found while searching, rather than information found while surfing. After conducting a survey, it turns out that 73% of Americans admit to using the internet daily – half of which use it for searching the web, while the other half just use it as a method of passing time.

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LONDON, ENGLAND – Lord Mandelson, the first Secretary of State in Parliament, has imposed new laws on the way file-sharers will be treat in the near future. He’s suggesting a 3-strike system, similar to the one implemented in france – you will be warned twice for file sharing, and if you continue, you will lose right to the internet all together. Several companies, especially TalkTalk, are speaking out against this.

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Geocities. Who remembers it? The pioneer of the ‘second’ internet age, in my opinion. It allowed for so much more to happen. It’s sad to think that Yahoo has dropped the service completely (unless of course, you intend to pay $4.99 a month for ‘Yahoo Web Hosting’, which I can’t see this reader doing, ever.)

It’s a shame. Geocities was there from the start. It symbolised something important, great, and fun, and while painfully difficult to use it was still good. Later replaced by Piczo; it lost popularity fast and is now cancelled. It was, in a sense, some of the first Web 2.0 around.

RIP; Geocities. Just like we once knew ya.

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In a remarkably strange ‘study’ by a rather eccentrically strange woman; she believes that Facebook is better for your intelligence than Twitter. 

Dr. Tracey Alloway of Scotland believes in radical various methods of recording a child’s intelligence by the means of their ‘working memories’ – that is; the memory that is stored for later use, and that this is far more important than recording a child’s intelligence quota.

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This time last year we were told that our online world was changing forever.

*Apparently*, ten major world Internet Service Providers were in meetings over how they could commercialise the web.

The idea was, we were told, that larger websites would be able to pay the big companies to have their websites load faster. The poorer or non-profit websites would therefore load a lot slower – if at all. This prompted several major blogs to rant about the loss of net neutrality. Youtube videos were made. The Internet world was stunned. There were protests.

What happened?

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We’re going by the date of the first data transmission, back in 1969, September 2nd. Yes, the first data connection between two computers at UCLA, the amazing connection by Kleinrock. I guess you could say he’s the father of the internet as we know it.

While the internet reaches its grand age of existing for four decades, the internet has certainly experienced growing pains, and appears to have reached its mid-life crisis.

It’s certainly amazing to think about how the internet grew from sharing 1 small text file between two computers, to a network of computers, to displaying static web-pages around the world and now delivering fast, active languages such as PHP technology, enabling users to participate in Social media, known as the “Web 2.0 technology.”

Where will the internet be in the next 40 years? Who knows. Leave your thoughts in the comment box!

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