Internet

“Don’t upload that selfie to Instagram — make a gift wrapping pattern out of it instead”

“While Gift Wrap My Face is a silly product, it’s still an interesting development in our society’s fascination with selfies and silly representations of ourselves. And even more…

“How a 2011 Hack You’ve Never Heard of Changed the Internet’s Infrastructure”

“every time you try to visit a webpage, your browser checks to make sure that the site you’re loading is really the one you’re trying to access, not a malicious page some wily attacker is trying to…

“Lost in the Digital Swamp, Link by Link”

“I went on that ride courtesy of one of the internet’s many “content discovery solutions.” These companies occupy real estate at the margins of websites like CNN, Politico and TMZ, and fill them with links to content landfills with names like Buzz-Hut…

“Map of the Internet”

“When you clicked on this story that server heard you, retrieved our words and images from the magnets, and then shipped them to you through a branching maze of wires and computers.

The very last computer in our data center took those words and did something…

“Has the Internet Really Changed Everything?”

“Huddled into icy plains of North Dakota, Napoleon is essentially the same place it was 25 years ago. And by most accounts, 50 and 75 years ago. The demographics and economics are static. Most of my high school classmates have taken over their family…

“The internet isn’t making us stupid. It’s making us humble.”

“Knowledge has always been distributed across members of our communities. No one individual can know everything, and we often “offload” some knowledge onto others. It’s okay that I don’t know how to fix a leaky faucet…

“Living in a Post-Delete World”

“We’re living in a moment of cognitive dissonance when it comes to deleting. The more evidence we’re presented with that anything we do online can haunt us forever, the more we persist in trying to control our digital histories. A guy can send a barrage ofangry tweets at a…