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From Internet Movie Firearms Database – Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games A • B • C • D • E • F • G • H • I • J • K • L • M • N … Read more

Share this… (Last Updated On: 18 December 2021) In the early 1990s, e-mail was spreading like wildfire. Among its early adopters, the most religious ones were from the academic community. In 1997, John Sutherland 1wrote that then an “e-mail address … Read more

My shopping spree was born out of boredom. On a lazy July morning I was in bed browsing Amazon when I decided to follow up on a tip I had received. I plugged the word “brodifacoum” into Amazon’s search bar, … Read more

A visualization of the Internet made using network routing data. Image: Barrett Lyon, opte.org. Imagine being able to disconnect or redirect Internet traffic destined for some of the world’s biggest companies — just by spoofing an email. This is the … Read more

The year: 2013. My jeans were tight, my hair was long, I was in the gory core of my 20s, and I was trying to make my way in life. After several aeons of diligent study and many more working … Read more

In honor of Open Access Week, and particularly this year’s theme of structural equity, we wanted to highlight a project from the Internet Archive that is doing extraordinary work promoting access to knowledge. The bad news: that project is also … Read more

Network data from NetBlocks confirm a significant disruption to internet service in Sudan from the morning of Monday 25 October 2021 affecting cellular and some fixed-line connectivity on multiple providers. The incident is ongoing as of 9:30 a.m. UTC and … Read more

Most of my friends have been on the internet, and I’ve spent many years as part of various internet communities, many of which I have moderated as either part of the mod team or the sole creator. (this also applies to … Read more

Over the last few months, I dove really deep into the topic of addiction and compulsive use of the Internet. I feel my relationship with the Internet is much healthier now because of it and I wanted to share with … Read more

Are you really addicted to your smartphone?Or is it a made-up story to scare you? This is an argument for why all different kinds of digital addiction are real, and why the Internet has the qualities needed to get us … Read more