“Medieval spamfilter” [Comic]
See how they fought spam in Medieval Europe.
Category Archives: World Wide Web
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Master of the Internet [Video]
This 1994 advertisement will help you realize how the world has changed in less than 20 years.
What happens when the Internet is down [Comic]
No one goes outside unless the Internet is down.
Employee at a major webhost is found to have provided himself backdoor access to 2,700 servers
Well this is a little disconcerting, to say the least. An employee, now ex-employee, of the web hosting company Hostgator has been arrested and formally charged for installing a backdoor Trojan on web hosting servers. His infected...
What an awesome deal: $0 magazine is being sold at a “discount” for $225! [Image]
Everyone should jump on this right now. Heck, at this price you should buy one for your dog, too.
Buyer on eBay gets sued by seller for leaving negative feedback regarding $1.44 postage fee
Be careful when you leave negative feedback on an eBay seller — it can get you sued. Amy Nicholls, who purchased a microscope light from Med Express for $175, paid $12 for shipping. But then she found out that she also had t...
Australia is getting 1Gbps internet by the end of 2013, courtesy of NBN
While Google announced a third city to get Google Fiber and Japan is getting ridiculous 2Gbps download speeds in Tokyo, the rest of the world might be feeling a little left out. But now it looks Australia won’t have to be je...
Bing is flagged as potentially harmful by browsers due to poor HTTPS certificate
It would appear Microsoft and Bing have run into a bit of a problem. I mean besides the fact that Bing is not quite as useful a search engine of course. Then again, this issue will only affect those smart dotTechies out there usin...
Screenshots and feature list of Google’s universal chat platform ‘Babel’ have leaked online
Last month we told you about a rumor that Google would be combining Google Talk, Google Voice and Google Hangouts into one universal chat platform called Google Babble. It turns out that while the idea of the new service from Goog...
Chinese website allows users to install pirated iOS apps without the need for jailbreaking
A Chinese website called 7659 is bypassing Apple’s App Store and allowing its users to install pirated apps for free, without the need for jailbreaking. How are they doing this? It’s actually kind of clever. The websit...
How to backup or download emails from Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail (Outlook.com), Outlook, Thunderbird, and more [Guide]
Email is a mainstay in the lives of many people. I’d venture to say many people who feel naked if they ever lost access to their email accounts and/or their emails. So a question often asked is: how do I backup or download m...
Here’s what Vatican City likes to pirate on BitTorrent
Last time we told you about what North Korea likes to pirate on BitTorrent, but now we have another location whose downloading habits you might be curious about –Vatican City. As I’m sure you already know, Vatican City...
Provo, Utah is getting Google Fiber by the end of 2013
Google and Provo officials have announced that Provo, Utah will be the third city to get the ultra-fast Google Fiber internet service. This follows the recent announcement of the second city to get gigabit internet from Google, Au...
Check out this awesome crowdsourced music video which you can join right now!
This is probably one of the coolest music-related uses of the browser yet. The Netherlands’ Light Light has a new music video called “Kilo,” and you probably won’t find anywhere else but on its homepage. Wh...
StarRSS may not be the best alternative to Google Reader, but it’s definitely the coolest
It’s been over a month since Google announced that it would be shutting down the beloved Google Reader on July 1st, and there’s a really good chance that you’ve moved on to one of the many alternatives by now. An...