A fantastic and informative video from 1994 teaching you how to “Master the Internet.” Did you know that you can use the internet for “chatting with men….about football?”

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TECH BUZZ: The new hotness in domains is .tel — your simple, lightweight contact info domain. It's like a profile page, only more expensive. The .tel addresses were only opened up to businesses and corporations today, but will be available to individuals soon. Contact info will be encrypted in the domain, letting you use it as an online calling card for whoever you'd like to be able to find you.

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1. .tel Is the New Hotness
2. TechCrunch Sez “.Tel, Boo!”
3. Telnic | the home of .tel
4. .tel Simulator

TECH BUZZ: Another step towards video chat ubiquity? Sadly, it may one day be impossible for slobs like me to hide behind the comfortable veneer of cellphones, email and IM, and our pathetic grooming habits will be on display for all to see.

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1. Gmail Adds Voice and Video Chat
2. The Requisite, Cornball Intro Video to Gmail Video Chat

CULTURE BUZZ: Baby’s First Internet is a nursery rhyme that explains all the ridiculousness of the web. With simple wisdom like, “Do not stop to think or edit: You must be the first who said it,” writer Kevin Fanning and illustrator Kean Soo manage to satirize all the best elements of the innerwebs. They even called out the bacon obsession we’ve documented so meticulously. “In order to increase renown, add ‘bacon’ to most any noun.”

The Best Links:

1. Baby’s First Internet
2. Baby’s First Internet a Cautionary Tale
3. ‘Baby’s First Internet’: Just Add Bacon

CULTURE BUZZ: The AP wants bloggers to pay licensing fees to quote from their stories. Unfortunately, a nifty clause in the United States Code provides for something called “fair use,” allowing for the use of copyrighted material without the copyright holder’s permission in certain cases, like for educational purposes or commentary/criticism. Watch out, AP, you’ve gone and got the whole internet mad at you!

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The Best Links:

1. The J-Walk Blog: Pay By The Word
2. From Foolish to Craven
3. How Far Will the AP Take This?
4. The Associated Press Content Service — Web Use Payment Chart, Starting at $12.50 for 5-25 Words
5. Cracking Down or “Setting Guidelines”
6. It Just Keeps Getting Better!
7. Oooh - TechCrunch Bans the AP!
8. Jarvis Gets Mad: “FU AP”

TECH BUZZ: The first official convention celebrating Internet memes will take place at Harvard University, where hundreds of web nerds will actually hear each other LOL. Buzzfeed won’t be in attendance, but we can only hope there’s a party DJ on hand to awkwardly beckon Tron Guy to the dance floor.

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1. ROFLCon: The Official Site
2. CNN Discovers Internet Famous At ROFLcon
3. Anil Dash Is Going (And Thinks You Should, Too)
4. Jason Scott Will Be Delivering a Speech Titled “Before The LOL”
5. David Weinberger’s Keynote Address At ROFLcon
6. At ROFLcon, “The Internet Will Come Alive”
7. LIVE At ROFLcon: Leslie Hall!
8. LIVE At ROFLcon: Tron Guy!
9. ROFLCon, A Gathing of Popluar Internet Memes | Laughing Squid
10. LIVE At ROFLcon: XKCD!
11. LIVE At ROFLcon: LOLcats!
12. LIVE At ROFLcon: Dinosaur Comics!
13. Gearing Up for a Weekend of Nerddom
14. “ROFLCon is Like the Apocalypse, the Last Episode of M*A*S*H and the Stupidest Thing You Can Think of All Rolled Into One Amazing Package of Internet Memes”
15. The Official ROFLcon Shirt, Available - Where Else? - At ROFLcon