#oldschoolinternet

[primordial-cowboy]

International Arms Trafficker Training Page

From time to time governments make bad laws. One possible way to get a bad law changed is for lots of people to deliberately disobey the law in a public way. This is called civil disobedience. Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and many others have used civil disobedience to get bad laws changed.

Imagine a bad law saying: "It is O.K. to export books about encryption if they are transported by horse and buggy, but it is illegal to export such books using any motorized vehicle." Crazy? Right! Replace "horse and buggy" with "paper book", and "motorized vehicle" with "machine readable media", and you get a real law that many Internet users want to get rid of.

If this web-form is submitted, the 3 line encryption program below will be exported over the Internet from where you are now to Anguilla. The US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) currently classify this as exporting munitions. So if you are in the United States, this simple harmless act is illegal, and will make you an International Arms Trafficker.

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Amazon video added Blue Seed to their anime collection. Its been over 10 years since I last seen this show. I randomly googled it, and all the usual results popped up at first- ‘Wikipedia, Crunchyroll, Anime news network, etc’ But a couple links down i saw a URL from angelfire. Whoa, you rarely come across fansites nowadays. But especially not the OLD ones. This site even had a guestbook and a links section. Back in the day (Late 90′s to early 00′s) anime fansites and shrines were everywhere. I remember spending hours browsing through the ones devoted to my favorite shows and games. They were by the fans and for the fans, and were a lot more fun than wikipedia :/...sites like angelfire and yahoo geocities gave you all the tools to create your own webpage. You could paste gifs and pics to your hearts content. Guestbooks were your way of saying “I was here” since social networking wasn’t really a thing, other than chatrooms anyway. Anyway, this site hasn’t been updated in 15 years, so its just interesting how websites today have changed. not too many personal sites, mostly that type of content has changed to running a blog, or a youtube channel. or less personal, just being a member of a group.

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Bij het zoeken naar de werken van Hopper kwam ik op de website www.museumsyndicate.com terecht. Waar er 184 werken van Hopper verzameld zijn. Dat is wel al heel wat om een overzichtelijk beeld te krijgen van de kunstenaar en links te leggen tussen de verschillende schilderijen.

Opvallend is dat Hopper vooral bekend is met werken waar personen in aanwezig zijn zoals Nighthawks, dit onderwerp maakt echter maar voor de helft deel uit van zijn oeuvre. Ik kan het wel vinden met de schilderijen van de huizen en landschappen, bruggen en stedelijke scènes.

Het lijkt zeer moeilijk om websites te vinden waar hele archieven aan kunstenaars en kunstwerken op te zien zijn. De website in kwestie is niet de beste van layout en design maar wel heel handig. Een grappige onderdeel ervan is ook, en dit doet me zeer hard denken aan het jaar 2000, dat je van elk kunstwerk een puzzel kunt genereren en oplossen.