The Early Internet, Explained by One Weird Celine Dion Fan Site
Yury Toroptsov remembers the moment he fell in love with Celine Dion. In 1997, he had a layover in South Korea. Flipping through the channels...
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India’s top court rules indefinite internet shutdown in Kashmir unwarranted and amount to abuse of power
India’s top court ruled on Friday that the indefinite shutdown of the internet in Kashmir was unwarranted and demonstrated “abuse of power” by the Prime...
Elon Musk says a UFO-on-a-stick will connect you to his internet satellites
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says that anyone signing up to his Starlink broadband service will receive a contraption that looks like a “thin, flat, round...
Top 6 IoT (Internet of Things) Devices for Your Smart Home
IoT or Internet of Things devices are completely transforming the way we used to live. These devices have the capabilities to make our life so...
The Automation Boom is Coming. Will the Internet Be Ready?
We live in an increasingly connected world. It’s estimated that there will be about 260 million internet-connected devices in the U.S. by 2020, and the next wave of these...
Internet Explorer 5 developer describes frustrations of working with Steve Jobs
On the 20th anniversary of Internet Explorer 5 for Mac, one of its key developers reveals how Apple’s Steve Jobs ignored agreements, and made Microsoft...
Google has little choice to be evil or not in today’s fractured internet
Well, we got to January 2nd before the latest angry resignation published by a tech executive on Medium. Today’s installment comes from Ross LaJeunesse, who...
Russia Tests Its Alternative to the Open Internet
It’s something of a minor miracle that the internet has expanded to cover the globe without being chopped up into incompatible blocks that can’t talk...
These were the people and events that made the internet curious in 2019, according to Wikipedia
Wikipedia announced 2019’s most popular articles, and almost all were about the biggest stories in entertainment and pop culture. Marvel films (and superhero flicks in...
5 milestones that shaped 50 years of internet history
Fifty years ago, a UCLA computer science professor and his student sent the first message over the predecessor to the internet, a network called ARPANET....
California is rewriting the rules of the internet. Businesses are scrambling to keep up
A new law that will let you opt out of the online data economy goes into effect on Jan. 1 — assuming businesses can figure...
Virgin Media free broadband boost – Simple ways to speed up your internet without any cost
IF YOU want to speed up your broadband this Christmas there’s some very useful tips and tricks from Virgin Media to give things a big...
‘Man on swing’ video divides the internet – it’s ‘the dress’ all over again
Which way is he swinging? (TikTok/ @ectupper) Every so often the internet throws up a seemingly innocuous piece of content that spirals out of all...
5G deployment stands ready to supercharge the Internet of Things
Enlarge / Artist’s impression of automated IoT devices connected via 5G. (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty) It’s true that inorganic users don’t yell at customer-service...
AT&T figured out a sneaky way to hide its slower home internet speeds from test results
We’ve written often here about the different tests that attempt to measure your home broadband speed, which includes crowd-sourced apps from companies like Ookla. And...