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In August 1908, a white mob attacked Springfield, Illinois’s Black community, destroying homes and businesses and lynching two Black men. National outrage over the violence helped spur the movement that created the NAACP the following year.
MORE →Reflects the personal views, recollections, and perspective of the author, Mike Davis.
This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985
Website type | Internet forum |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Headquarters | Lagos, Nigeria |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Website | nairaland.com |
| IPv6 support | No |
| Advertising | Banner ads |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional[notes 1] |
| Users | 3.0 million registered users (March 2023) |
| Launched | April 20, 2005 |
| Current status | Active |
Nairaland is a Nigerian English-language news website. Founded by Nigerian entrepreneur Seun Osewa on October 20, 2011, it is targeted primarily at Nigerian domestic residents and is the 5th most visited website in Nigeria.[1]
It currently has over 5.9 million users with over 7.3 million topics created to date, and it is estimated that approximately 5% of Nigerian Internet users are registered on Nairaland, compared to Feedcover or Facebook's 11 million Nigerian users, which corresponds to approximately 20% of the local Internet population.[2] Registration is only necessary for posting, commenting or liking posts.
During the Ebola virus epidemic, trolls from 4chan registered on Nairaland in 2014 to propagate false claims that Americans and Europeans were spreading the Ebola virus in magical rituals through worship of 4chan's "Ebola-chan" meme (an anime personification of the Ebola virus).[3]
On June 22, 2014, following a successful hacking attempt, Nairaland went offline briefly.[4] The hackers were able to gain access to, and wipe the contents of, the website's host server and backup. Three days later, it was back online after some data had been recovered from a remote backup. However, user posts and registration between January 10, 2014, and June 22, 2014, was lost. Users with lost accounts were required to re-register.[5]
In August 2020, The Daily Beast reported that some users on Nairaland were promoting the QAnon conspiracy theory.[6]
Nairaland has faced criticism for hosting content and fostering communities promoting ethnic bigotry. Although the platform has implemented policies against hate speech and discrimination, concerns remain about the prevalence of ethnic slurs, stereotypes, and inflammatory rhetoric targeting various Nigerian ethnic groups. This has led to the erosion of members from Nairaland to other social networks like Facebook, Nelogram and Twitter that have strict rules against abuse and hate speech.[7]
The Nairaland website was temporarily shut down on the 18th of December, 2023 by its server host.[8]
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Nairaland is a Nigerian English-language news website. Founded by Nigerian entrepreneur Seun Osewa on October 20, 2011, it is targeted primarily at Nigerian domestic residents and is the 5th most visited website in Nigeria. It currently has over 5.9 million users with over 7.3 million topics created to date, and it is estimated that approximately 5% of Nigerian Internet users are registered on Nairaland, compared to Feedcover or Facebook's 11 million Nigerian users, which corresponds to approximately 20% of the local Internet population. Registration is only necessary for posting, commenting or liking posts.
The People's Republic of China has been on the Internet intermittently since May 1989 and on a permanent basis since 20 April 1994. Since 2008, China has become the country with the largest population on the Internet (and remains so as of 2025). As of December 2024, 1.09 billion people in China (77.5% of the country's total population) use the internet. China's first foray into the global cyberspace was an email (not TCP/IP based and thus technically not internet) sent on 20 September 1987 to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, reading, "Across the Great Wall, towards the rest of the world" (Chinese: 越过长城，走向世界; pinyin: Yuèguò chángchéng, zǒuxiàng shìjiè). This later became a well-known phrase in China and as of 2018, was displayed on the desktop login screen for QQ mail. By law, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) governs the country's Internet. China's Internet is heavily censored by the CCP, with numerous foreign websites blocked by the Great Firewall. China has one of the lowest cross-border internet traffic rates in the world. The usage of foreign apps and websites is extremely low, with most Chinese netizens using domestic alternatives. The Cyberspace Administration of China, an institution directly under the CCP Central Committee, is the national internet regulator and censor. China requires a real-name system for Internet services and online platforms.
Internet access is a facility or service that provides connectivity for a computer, a computer network, or other network device to the Internet, and for individuals or organizations to access or use applications such as email and the World Wide Web. Internet access is offered for sale by an international hierarchy of Internet service providers (ISPs) using various networking technologies. At the retail level, many organizations, including municipal entities, also provide cost-free access to the general public. Types of connections range from fixed-line cable (such as DSL and fiber optic) to mobile (via cellular) and satellite. The availability of Internet access to the general public began with the commercialization of the early Internet in the early 1990s, and has grown with the availability of useful applications, such as the World Wide Web. In 1995, only 0.04 percent of the world's population had access, with well over half of those living in the United States and consumer use was through dial-up. By the first decade of the 21st century, many consumers in developed nations used faster broadband technology. By 2014, 41 percent of the world's population had access, broadband was almost ubiquitous worldwide, and global average connection speeds exceeded one megabit per second.
Internet in Russia, or Russian Internet (Russian: российский Интернет, romanized: rossiyskiy Internet, lit. 'Russia-related Internet'), and sometimes Runet (a portmanteau of "Russian" and "Internet"), is the part of the Internet that is related to the Russian Federation. As of 2015, Internet access in Russia is available to businesses and home users in various forms, including dial-up, cable, DSL, FTTH, mobile, wireless and satellite. As of 2020, 122,488,468 Russians (85% of the country's total population) were Internet users. As of September 2020, Russia ranked 47th among the world's countries by the fixed broadband Internet access speed, with an average download speed of 75.91 mbit/s, and 88th by mobile network Internet access speed, with 22.83 mbit/s. According to Freedom House, the Internet in Russia is "Not Free" as of 2019. In September 2011, Russia overtook Germany on the European market with the highest number of unique visitors online. In March 2013, a survey found that Russian had become the second-most commonly used language on the web after English. Russians are strong users of social networks, of which Odnoklassniki.ru (used by 75% of 25–35-year-old Russians in 2009) and VKontakte are the most popular. LiveJournal has also been long popular. Online gaming is widespread. Since 2022, the country's online ecosystem has developed independently and cultivated its own local digital economy. Due to political factors, and citing reasons such as information security and anti-fraud measures, the authorities have implemented new policies. Accessing international websites has become increasingly difficult, while a large number of users have turned to domestic alternatives.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
MORE →The Greenwood District.