Internet

To understand the corporate culture at Google Inc., take a look at the toilets.

Forget condos and strip malls. Domain names, the real estate of the Web, have been delivering far greater returns. How some of the savviest speculators on the Net are making millions from their URL portfolios.

The story starts (I'm shortcutting here) with a kid insulting everyone on the #stopHipHop IRC channel. Most people there believed it was rather funny, but it got even more funny.

A candid conversation with the sultan of software about outsmarting his rivals

Playboy, 1994

The cyber court of public opinion proves powerful, but its verdicts aren't always just.

The explosive rise of the Web, going from nothing to everything in one decade, has encouraged us to believe in the impossible: Might the long-heralded great library of all knowledge really be within our grasp?

Dear Friends,

My name is Norm and I've got an amazing story to tell you, a story that can make you RICH BEYOND YOUR WILDEST DREAMS!

To the cyber scammers in Nigeria who trawl for victims on the Internet, Americans are easy targets. But one thief had second thoughts.

I consistently fail to be perceived as human.

Miami-based Bangbus.com is a leading purveyor of Internet porn, but at what cost to naïve models?

By Kris Conesa, Miami New Times
October 14, 2004

Q. What, exactly, is the Internet?
A. The Internet is a worldwide network of university, government, business, and private computer systems.

Q. Who runs it?
A. A 13-year-old named Jason.

It all began with a comic book!

By the Electronic Frontier Foundation

Blogs are like personal telephone calls crossed with newspapers. If you blog, there are no guarantees you'll attract a readership of thousands. But at least a few readers will find your blog, and they may be the people you'd least want or expect. These include potential or current employers, coworkers, and professional colleagues; your neighbors; your spouse or partner; your family; and anyone else curious enough to type your name, email address or screen name into Google or Feedster and click a few links.

The point is that anyone can eventually find your blog if your real identity is tied to it in some way. And there may be consequences.

Microsoft's crown strategic jewel, the Windows API, is lost. The cornerstone of Microsoft's monopoly power and incredibly profitable Windows and Office franchises, which account for virtually all of Microsoft's income and covers up a huge array of unprofitable or marginally profitable product lines, the Windows API  is no longer of much interest to developers. The goose that lays the golden eggs is not quite dead, but it does have a terminal disease, one that nobody noticed yet.

Now celebrating its 10th birthday, the computer has made cyberspace cozy

A comprehensive interview with Steve Jobs by The Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Program

Online gamers seek escape in personas of the opposite sex but often encounter stereotypes.

The controversial singer takes on record label profits, Napster and "sucka VCs."

By Courtney Love

Technical support or confederacy of dunces;
Just where does America Online find its technical support people?