"This advert for the Guardian's open journalism

screened for the first time on 29 February 2012, imagines how we might cover the story of the Three Little Pigs in print and online. Follow the story from the paper's front page headline, through a social media discussion and finally to an unexpected conclusion" :

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was formerly known as "The Manchester Guardian" and founded in 1821.

"The Guardian" is told to have the 2nd largest online readership of any English-language newspaper in the world (after the New York Times). On the first page of the May 5, 1821 issue, the first words published below the masthead "immortalised a lost labrador on a front page made up entirely of advertisements" ; on that day Napoleon died too -but no mention of his death for weeks.

 Click the illustration ⇓ to get a larger-sized first front page :

You can compare it with today's front page :

In January 2011, "The Guardian" paper form had an average daily  circulation of 279,308 copies. The newspaper identifies with centre-left liberalism ; its readership is usually on the mainstream left of the British political opinion. The daily is also influential in the design and publishing fields  -it supports many awards in these domains. News replaced ads on page one only in...  1952.

Among the cartoon strips issued in "The Guardian" you'll also find...

Doonesbury's :

Harry Venning's :

or Steve Bell's :

To be honest, Justin Bieber's music gets on my nerves :-(  But variety is the spice of life and... of music too I guess.

The singer's "My World Tour" page has become

the target of an internet joke : 

Click here >>   BBC news

to read the full article

The unexpected result of his asking his fans where to go next on his Word Tour points out  -again -  that the Internet not only may be full of treasures, but also... full of traps !

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"Variety is the spice of life" could be translated :

"Il faut de tout pour faire un monde"

a target (une cible) / to target (cibler, viser)

"History of the Internet"

Here's s an animated documentary that presents the inventions of the web : from time-sharing to filesharing... from Arpanet to the Internet !