links for 2008-06-19

• How The Web Was Won
  Very interesting Vanity Fair article on the history of the Internet -- from the invention of packet switching to the dotcom boom -- told by the people who made it, long but really worth reading.
  (tags: history Internet)
• Is Google Making Us Stupid?
  Great essay by Nick Carr: "Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory".
  (tags: google Internet insight brain)
• The Guardian: In praise of TED
  The Guardian wrote a generous editorial about the TED conferences and particularly TED.com: "TED is proof of the appetite for knowledge and debate that confounds cynics who dismiss video-sharing as a spiral of aggression and idiocy".
  (tags: TEDconference)