Internet, Why So Blue ?
▻http://www.theawl.com/2014/06/internet-why-so-blue
Children ask why the sky is blue, and there usually isn’t anybody around to provide a satisfying answer. The sky is blue because… the atmosphere? And gases. The sky is blue because of the air and the Sun. The sky is blue because the sky is blue, and it’s time to go to school. Maybe they’ll tell you there.
But what kind of child would look at the sky today, when there’s so much going on down here? The sky suggests infinity but the little screen on dad’s phone seems to supply it. What is the answer, then, when a child asks: Why is the internet blue?
Twitter is blue
Tumblr is blue
Instagram is blue
Microsoft is blue
Facebook is blue
see also « Allez les bleus » ▻http://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/14396
▻http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/this-is-how-people-once-measured-the-blueness-of-the-sky/370821