It’s like the dead internet, only more extreme. Here’s why the arrival of Moltbook signifies the start of a strange and ...

It’s like the dead internet, only more extreme. Here’s why the arrival of Moltbook signifies the start of a strange and ...

The web, or “world wide web” as we used to say, turns 27 years old on December 20. On that date, nearly three decades ago, British engineer and scientist Tim Berners-Lee launched the world’s first ...

Victor Cornelius’ company became one of the largest menu-printing outfits in the country. Preston Smith became the 40th governor of Texas. But Les Adams would become a leader in something arguably ...

Travel back in time on the internet with the help of archives After entering a URL into the Wayback Machine, a user can see all the times the archive’s crawlers have saved the site and can then choose ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. For decades, robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers. But as unscrupulous AI companies seek out more and ...

Amazon early next year will pull the plug on Alexa.com — a website ranking and analytics service that’s unrelated to the ecommerce giant’s Alexa voice assistant platform. “After more than two decades ...

“Was the internet really this bad?” I wondered to myself as I read the September 1995 issue of The Atlantic. I was reading the issue in digital form, displayed on Netscape Navigator 3 on a mid-’90s ...

Surfing the web isn’t what it used to be. The halcyon era of peaceful browsing on clean sites is now a distant memory. Today’s internet is a digital hellscape of pop-up ads, notification prompts, and ...

“The Most Hated Man on the Internet” faces a bit of a logistical problem: How to visually represent the kind of photos that were posted by the “revenge porn” site IsAnyoneUp.com without invading ...