Nigerian Scammers Suck At Photoshop
Scambaiters are a group of people who fight back against the scammers by leading them on for comedic gain.
We Talked to Towkio About Going to Space: "Oh My God, I'm In Space"
The story of why Chicago rapper Towkio traveled 100,000 feet in space to release his latest project, ‘WWW.’
A Warning About the "Dark Side" of the Web from the Birthplace of the Web
h5. CERN's computer storage facility On August 8, 1989, someone published a web page at "http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html":http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html. It was...
Don't Hit on a Dead Dude's Wife, No Matter What 'P.S. I Love You' Tells You
You Had Me At Hell No dissects the 2007 Hilary Swank rom-com that tries to convince us that a woman mourning her husband is fair game for dating.
Long Live Gopher: The Techies Keeping the Text-Driven Internet Alive
The Gopher protocol isn’t supported by the modern web basically at all, but despite this, it lingers on, a quarter century from its peak. Here’s how.
What the Biggest Internet Land Grab Ever .Means
h5. ^"Unleashing the global human imagination": Rod Beckstrom, president and CEO of ICANN^. Today, The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the organization in charge of maintaining the Internet's address system, "opened the...
What Does the Internet Look Like?
In 2007, _Popular Science_ broke important ground in Internet visualization theory—an ongoing effort to describe what happens behind our computer screens, or, more accurately, beyond them, inside Ethernet cables and satellites lying around in the upper...
Tribal Marks Are Dying Out in Nigeria. Those With the Scars Are Split On It.
The traditional scars are taking centre stage in Skepta's new film ‘Tribal Marks’, but what is it really like living with them?
What Online Internet Websites Looked Like in 2001
In 2001, the majority of Americans didn’t have the Internet.
Werner Herzog Has Met The Internet and It Is Us
In his new documentary "Lo And Behold," Werner Herzog explores the cave of never-forgotten dreams.