“If you like overheads, you’ll love PowerPoint”*…
Military Industrial Powerpoint Complex is collection created as a special project for the Internet Archive’s 20th Anniversary celebration in 2016, highlighting IA’s web archive. It consists of all the Powerpoint files (57,489) from the .mil web domain, e,g,:
Plumb the depths at The Military Industrial Powerpoint Complex.
* Edward Tufte
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As we hold our heads in our hands, we might recall that it was on this date in 1989 that Tim Berners-Lee submitted a proposal to CERN for developing a new way of linking and sharing information over the Internet. It was the first time Berners-Lee proposed the system that would ultimately become the World Wide Web, so this date is oft cited as the “Birthday of the Web.” But his pitch was a bit vague, and got no traction. He resubmitted a second, more detailed proposal on November 12, 1990– on which CERN acted… so many consider this later date the Web’s inception.
