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Reblogged szhmidty
Jesse what the fuck are you talking about
this is the sort of thing that a boomer would have written in the 90's; Dave Barry ass sentence
Reblogged thiefofgenders
you used to be able to play games on cartoonnetwork.com . . . now every company's website wants to give you spyware and spread corporate propaganda but I REMEMBER when you could play a BEN 10 adventure game in-browser without so much as giving away your e-mail. people's heads should be on pikes for this
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Reblogged thiefofgenders
remember .io games? that was 8 years ago
nowadays the only people that use the .io domain are technology sites
ok so .io is a "fun" lesson in colonialism and technology, like all two letter top level domains (yes all of them) it's a country domain belonging to a country, io being the british indian oceans territory, an archipelago in the indian ocean. .io domains became so trendy because they're easily marketable to tech people (io can stand for input/output), it looks kinda cool and at the time domains with .io were highly available with not many websites being created on the islands.
however .io is not like other small islands with highly wanted tlds such as .ai or .to, where the islands make millions off of domain sales and can rely on them as a big pillar of their economy. all profits from .io sales go to the UK, and despite a fight to get control over their tld the islands get nothing, not only did the native population get displaced in land deals and colonialism but their colonizer also heavily profits off of the territories sudden (indirect) trendyness with tech startups.
don't buy .io domains, don't support the british empire.
...The more you know ... 🌠
God damn, and here I was hoping it was something cool, like a reference to Jupiter's moons or something.
An interesting red that offers some extra history and context.
Important takeaway: The UK gave up its proclaimed "ownership" of the Chagos Islands, where this domain is based. Quote: "In return for a 99-year lease for the military base, the islands will become part of Mauritius."
According to the article, this means that the people in charge of making top-level internet domains a thing are likely going to do everything they can to make sure that .io will cease to exist as a top-level domain. The article talks about the history of top-level domains associated with countries that cease to exist, or that change forms, and it doesn't sound pretty.
The takeaway is that the organization in charge of this sort of thing is most likely going to try and phase out the .io domain entirely over the next three to five years. We'll see what happens!
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