It looks like it hasn’t been updated since 1996. It has sound effects that you’ve not heard since the glory days of AOL. Yet the Internet Scrabble Club puts the game’s official apps to shame. There is ...
StumbleUpon, a tool that led users to random websites, had a stranglehold on millennials in the 2010s. Its influence echoes through everything we do online. For Kaitlyn Arford, a 31-year-old freelance ...
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 ...
In the early ’90s, shortly before he helped think up Snopes, the first (and favorite) website for fact-checks, and way before he was banished from the very thing he’d helped build, David Mikkelson was ...
It's 2011. Barack Obama is in the White House, The Oprah Winfrey Show ends after 25 years, and kids are grooving to the hip new sounds of LMFAO and Foster the People. Seem like forever ago? Imagine ...
For the first time, TikTok had surpassed Facebook and Google as the most popular destination on the internet, according to a technology firm that tracks online activity. In an analysis of web traffic ...
This story is adapted from The Players Ball: A Genius, a Con Man, and the Secret History of the Internet’s Rise, by David Kushner. “Almighty God, Lord of all life, we praise You for the advancements ...
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Reddit is one of the most popular sites in the U.S. and the sixth-most-visited worldwide, beating out the likes of Facebook, Amazon, and Instagram. Increasingly, it’s also experienced a huge jump in ...
It’s 1996, and you’re bored. What do you do? If you’re one of the lucky people with an AOL account, you probably do the same thing you’d do in 2009: Go online. Crank up your modem, wait 20 seconds as ...
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 ...