Evidence

Format Web Page

"BowieNet was a paid subscription service rather than free hosting."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 9: ARE UNICORNS REALLY WHITE? From Connecting to Selling Us

Source title Ultrastar Launches Bowienet In The United Kingdom

Source authors Mark Adams

Source year 1998

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"BowieNet’s September 1998 launch materials advertised 5 MB of website space to subscribers."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 9: ARE UNICORNS REALLY WHITE? From Connecting to Selling Us

Source title Hyperlock Technologies Announces Strategic Development Agreement With Ultrastar And New Bowienet Isp

Source authors Mark Adams

Source year 1998

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"Bowie was already concerned in 1999 about consumer information being gathered through internet cookies."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 9: ARE UNICORNS REALLY WHITE? From Connecting to Selling Us

Source title Tomorrow's rock 'n' roll

Source authors David Bowie; Emma Brockes

Source year 1999

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"Bowie described BowieNet user feedback as unedited and said its chat rooms let him hear what people genuinely thought, making his relationship with his web audience more intimate."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 9: ARE UNICORNS REALLY WHITE? From Connecting to Selling Us

Source title Tomorrow's rock 'n' roll

Source authors David Bowie; Emma Brockes

Source year 1999

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"In 1999, David Bowie said that if he were starting in music then, he might see rock as a stodgy traditional format and the Internet as what was happening tomorrow."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 9: ARE UNICORNS REALLY WHITE? From Connecting to Selling Us

Source title Tomorrow's rock 'n' roll

Source authors David Bowie; Emma Brockes

Source year 1999

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"Problematic social networking use is moderately positively associated with anxiety symptoms."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 9: ARE UNICORNS REALLY WHITE? Are Unicorns Really White - Root

Source title Association between problematic social networking use and anxiety symptoms: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Source authors Mingxuan Du; Chengjia Zhao; Haiyan Hu; Ningning Ding; Jiankang He; Wenwen Tian; Wenqian Zhao; Xiujian Lin; Gaoyang Liu; Wendan Chen; ShuangLiu Wang; Pengcheng Wang; Dongwu Xu; Xinhua Shen; Guohua Zhang

Source year 2024

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"During the 2010s, U.S. tech firms added an average of about 74,000 new employees per year."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 9: ARE UNICORNS REALLY WHITE? Are Unicorns Really White - Root

Source title Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

Source authors Clive Thompson

Source year 2026

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Book / Offline paper

"In Coders, Clive Thompson connects Silicon Valley’s appetite for efficiency and scale with the proliferation of on-demand services designed to remove everyday inconveniences."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 9: ARE UNICORNS REALLY WHITE? Are Unicorns Really White - Root

Source title Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World

Source authors Clive Thompson

Source year 2019

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"Commercial firms built their own internet network infrastructure as the internet commercialized, and NSF shut down the NSFNET backbone in 1995."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 9: ARE UNICORNS REALLY WHITE? Are Unicorns Really White - Root

Source title Birth of the Commercial Internet - NSF Impacts

Source authors U.S. National Science Foundation

Source year 2026

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"ENIAC was built during World War II to calculate ballistic trajectories for the U.S. Army."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 9: ARE UNICORNS REALLY WHITE? Are Unicorns Really White - Root

Source title ENIAC Day to celebrate dedication of Penn’s historic computer

Source authors University of Pennsylvania

Source year 2011

Confidence high

Importance mid