We Were Given Ikea Monkey, And The Internet Has Responded
Still not over MONKEA GATE 2012.
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You Don’t Own Anything Anymore
Don’t freak out about the Instagram terms of service. Freak out about ALL terms of service. On the internet, we’re all sellouts.
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Rubio Warns Against International Internet Regulation
As the International Telecom Union is set to meet, the Florida Republican encourages Americans to protest attempts to regulate the Internet. “Tell the ITU and enemies of freedom to keep the Internet open and keep the Internet free.”
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How Old People Use The Internet
By looking at it VERY closely.
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Time For The Republican Party To Discover The Internet
Google is not a social network, and other elementary errors.
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A New Republican Generation Gets Ready To Take Over
“Oldsters,” watch your backs.
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Rick Santorum Website Features 4Chan Founder
What is Moot doing on the Patriot Voices page?
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Facebook Lets People Talk Politics, But May Not Get Out The Vote
A new study shows that sharing your political views online doesn’t necessarily increase your feeling that they matter.
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How To Use The Internet When The Internet Is Gone
How to access Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, and search when all you can do is text. Some last-minute digital storm prep.
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What It Feels Like When Your Favorite Site Goes Down (Presented By GIFs)
Tumblr’s been down all day and there’s nothing more frustrating when you keep hitting refresh and nothing happens…
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If “Arrested Development” Characters Were Memes
Thank you to redditor lewzealand for sharing these creations made by her brother Matt Lewis.
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Reddit’s Awkward Teen Years
The site’s recent turmoil says a lot about how outcast web cultures come of age.
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Can The Internet Catch Susie Ko’s Killer?
[Updated] Three days ago, a Northern Californian woman was murdered during a robbery. Her family’s taken to the web to track down the culprit.
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Let The Internet Plan Your Presidential Campaign!
Let’s play a fun game and see what your presidential run would look like if the internet was your campaign manager.
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How Pinterest Is Killing Feminism
This isn’t where the internet was supposed to take us.
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Philosopher Descartes’s Sage Internet Advice
Don’t let Cyber Bullies get you down. Also, leave yourself a little mystery in this age of social media.
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Exclusive: Moms Nearly Six Times As Likely As Dads To Be Called “Bad” Online
Data analysts tracked which adjectives are most closely associated with mothers and fathers. For moms — but not dads — “bad” and “naked” made the top ten.
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Branded For Life
At least selling your soul doesn’t leave a mark. Meet the human billboards that sold their skin to companies that don’t exist anymore.
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What’s The Oldest Internet Meme You Can Remember?
So everyone knows the internet regurgitates cultural garbage over and over again until it becomes gibberish. And it’s been doing that for a really long time. So dig through your Livejournals and YTMND accounts and let us know what the oldest meme you can remember is.
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How Live Sex Will Save The Porn Industry
DVDs are dead, pay sites are struggling and porn is free and unlimited. Why live cams, Twitter and Skype may be the porn industry’s last hope.
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How Child Porn And The Other Awfulest Things Ever Get Scrubbed From The Internet
Machines are long way from being able to automatically remove the most awful images mankind has to offer — child porn, beheadings, forced bestiality — from our favorite sites and social networks. An invisible workforce has emerged to look at it so we don’t have to. (Warning: You may find this piece upsetting.)
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Young, Cool…and Into Online Influence Metrics?
Meet #YungKloutGang, an otherwise typical group of friends who are really proud of their social media game.
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Get Ready For The Great Embeddening
Embedding isn’t just for videos anymore. How the future of the internet is about a different kind of copying and pasting.
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The Weirdest Battles Over New Domain Names
The public comment period for ICANN’s new top level domains — think .sex, .art, .gay — is open. It’s getting heated. The arguments can be a little strange.
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Welcome To The New Internet: Simple Design, Short Names, No Ads
A flood of minimalist sites and services hints at a stripped down future for the internet. Web 4.0 doesn’t have any ads.
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Kids In 1995 Predict The Internet
Back in 1995, Val Kilmer was Batman, TLC was warning about chasing Waterfalls, and a wacky fad called “the internet” was creeping into our collective consciousness. The funny thing was, not everyone was hip to it.
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The Most Indecipherable Email Of The Social Media Jargon Era
Can crowds be curated? Ask the author of Data: A Love Story.
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A Bubbly Map Of The Internet
A Russian developer plotted the 350,000 biggest sites on the web, by traffic, links and nationality. It’s full of stars!
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Google’s Crazyfast 1000Mbps Fiber Internet Is More Than A Pipe Dream
Google is officially an internet service provider: It’s offering insane 1000Mbps fiber internet and cable TV to Kansas City residents. But the impact will go way beyond Missouri.
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What Happens When Your Grandpa Finds Out About The Internet
Aren’t they so adorable?
