Here are some of my latest news finds about what’s going on that beautiful complex thing we call the World Wide Web. This post coincides with 40th anniversary of the Internet.

Past

Yahoo Geocities, the first popular personal Web-hosting site of the decade has closed.

Geocities closed

Geocities closed

Gone are the days we hosted some of our group’s websites here and raved about them.

Present
Google Wave is a web-based service, computing platform, and communications protocol designed to merge e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking. It seems Google doesn’t run out of ideas ey?

Future

Multilingual addresses in the internet.

How about かわいい.コム for a domain name?