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The environment
I live on the Net. It's my job, it's the universe I study and experiment on and the medium that I use to communicate with many
of my friends and colleagues.
Some years ago the ratio between the number of hours I was spending wired and the hours I was sleeping was almost 2:1.
Now things are changed but the spirit is still the same.
The past
I was born as a programmer and since my first classes on BASIC on ZX-80 I learned - as everyone - to use the
word PIPPO as the label for temporary stuff.
To be honest no one told me to use it, but in Italy PIPPO is like the word FOO or FOOBAR in
USA: every programmer uses it!
So what?
In 1995 in Italy the Internet was a media for few people and the domain registration habit (cybersquatting) was not so crazy as we are used today. No one ever thinked to register pippo.com, that's why I decided to do it myself and to move there what I knew about the Net, in particular my "Guida a Internet e alla realtà virtuale" which I wrote for educational purpose.
The goal was to become a reference for every Italian who wanted to know more about it; today I'm proposing it as an indipendent Italian forum for everyone who wants to talk about Internet, Linux, open source software, for computer science addicted and for everyone who - even today - is using the word pippo in his programs...
On this site you can find papers, articles and comments about World Wide Web, Internet and Information technology, in Italian. The following page will provide a small list of them.
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