Collaborate Disseminate
For many of us of a particular vintage, the internet blossomed in the ’90s with the invention of the Web and just a few years of development. Back then, we …read more Continue reading Taking Back The Internet With The Tildeverse
For many of us of a particular vintage, the internet blossomed in the ’90s with the invention of the Web and just a few years of development. Back then, we …read more Continue reading Taking Back The Internet With The Tildeverse
In the early 1990s I was privileged enough to be immersed in the world of technology during the exciting period that gave birth to the World Wide Web, and I …read more Continue reading A Look At The Small Web, Part 1
We heard a story that after the recent hurricane, a man noted that while the house was sweltering hot because the power was still out, his kids were more anxious …read more Continue reading A History of Internet Outages
A troubling report from the Belgian consumer protection group Testaankoop: several models of Velop Pro routers from Linksys were found to be sending WiFi configuration data out to a remote …read more Continue reading Linksys Velop Routers Caught Sending WiFi Creds in the Clear
In a world where so much of our lives depend on the use of online services, the web browser used to access those services becomes of crucial importance. It becomes …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: Has Firefox Finally Gone Too Far?
Ticketmaster is having a rough time lately. Recently, a hacker named [Conduition] managed to reverse-engineer their new “safe” electronic ticket system. Of course, they also had the recent breach where …read more Continue reading Ticketmaster SafeTix Reverse-Engineered
The term ‘Social Media’ may give off a benign vibe, suggesting that it’s a friendly place where everyone is welcome to be themselves, yet reality has borne out that it …read more Continue reading The US Surgeon General’s Case for a Warning Label on Social Media
Back in the innocent days of the late 1980s the Internet as we know it today did not exist yet, but there were still plenty of FTP servers. Since manually …read more Continue reading Finding and Resurrecting Archie: the Internet’s First Search Engine
Over the decades web browsers have changed from the fairly lightweight and nimble HTML document viewers of the 1990s to today’s top-heavy browsers that struggle to run on a system …read more Continue reading The Minimalistic Dillo Web Browser Is Back