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• Maciej Cegłowski: Web Design - The First 100 Years
  Another excellent presentation by Maciej. This one is about competing visions of the Web. I'm on team CONNECT KNOWLEDGE, PEOPLE, AND CATS.

Facebook only includes top-level, non-reply comments in their comment counts. So a post can say '5 comments' but there are 75. *disapproves*

— Paul Bausch (@pbausch) July 16, 2015

• Hossein Derakhshan: The Web We Have to Save
  (MeFi's own) hoder became a human time capsule spending six years in an Iranian prison for blogging. He's shocked by the state of the Web: "The web was not envisioned as a form of television when it was invented. But, like it or not, it is rapidly resembling TV: linear, passive, programmed and inward-looking."

• The Really Big One
  "Counting from the earthquake of 1700, we are now three hundred and fifteen years into a two-hundred-and-forty-three-year cycle." Happy Monday!