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Facebook and Twitter might have the bells and whistles, but the word processing doc's simplicity and accessibility have made it a winning tool.

As protesters fight on the ground, K-pop fans around the world have shown support by overwhelming police apps and flooding dangerous hashtags—including, most recently, #QAnon.

Hundreds of internet and phone carriers signed onto the FCC Keep Americans Connected Pledge, but the complaints by customers show a different story.

We asked Pooja: What is this behaviour?

How I found home networking nirvana with a powerline connection, a form of home networking that might be called poor man's ethernet. No drilling involved.

One of the groups that recently gained an influx of attention is "Terrible Art in Charity Shops," where people share various questionable art pieces they find at charity shops or similar establishments.

People whose loved ones have died during the pandemic are turning to strangers on the internet for support.

Connecting the world online feels essential in moments of history. Is it a package deal with all of the horribles?

The dying words of Scatman John have been sitting unsourced on Wikipedia for nearly 15 years, and have become accepted fact.

The Twitter-famous Krassenstein brothers are surging back a year after being banned from the site—with help from one of their wives.

As the president rages, Twitter finds its courage.

NYU officials ushered thousands of students into a virtual space dubbed "VR Grad Alley," a blocky, low-res re-creation of places associated with the school. But students describe the sendoff as a surreal and even sad way to end their time at college during the coronavirus pandemic.

Deciding which streaming services to subscribe to is daunting. Here's what you need to know.

The online rage at Amy Cooper could prove to be a powerful deterrent.

YouTube's cofounders originally thought "a generic platform where we could host all the videos on the internet" was too bold of an idea. So for about a week, the site was a dating platform — until it wasn't.

Founded by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, the streaming channel for phone viewing offers slick, saccharine, forgettable content.

The true story behind the subject of one of the year's most disseminated memes. Vice investigates the life of Wardy Joubert III.

Myka Stauffer built her YouTube following partly by sharing every step of her journey to adopt a toddler from China. This week, she revealed why he'd gone missing from her videos.

WarnerMedia's heavyweight entry into the streaming wars has launched. But while its library is impressive, it's also impossible to know what to expect or what's coming.

As we grind toward a summer of pandemic uncertainty and discord, we cannot help but want the creature comforts of the season. And because the landscape of the American imagination is littered with brands, many of our material, emotional cravings have an explicitly corporate dimension. So it is with Mountain Dew Baja Blast, a lime-tropical PepsiCo soda flavor that debuted in 2004.

My aim is not to convince you that everything was better in the past; it wasn't. You had trojans, malware, endless pop-ups, terrible security practices, browser incompatibility, slow Java applets. No, technically, the modern web is more secure and more usable. This essay is my attempt to show you what the small and independent web can look like.

Think more in line with Spotify.

I've never been big on social media, but there's one platform I absolutely can't stomach the courage to exist on: LinkedIn.

Helping you navigate the many, many, many, many, many, many, many options out there.

Here's how VPN companies have been lying to consumers and using scare tactics to get people to purchase their products.

Kieran Hamilton was the victim of a growing type of crime: burglars targeting people who have uploaded photos of their designer clothes, luxury holidays and sparkly watches.

Capture that summer feeling.

Long retired from TV, the "Malcolm in the Middle" star has found a new art form: turning his Twitter into a litany of physical and psychological pain. Does he think it's as funny as we do?

It was MyLife that broke me. After spending hours studying FAQ pages, sending terse emails and making occasional phone calls in an earnest-if-naive attempt to take back some control of my personal information online, I had my first demoralizing moment.

Here's how to get started and actually turn a profit.

The strange psychology that shapes your reactions.

It's a place where capitalism hasn't corrupted human kindness, stuffed animals are haunted and rusty bottle caps come in packs of 500.

Turns out the names Tolkien came up with for inhabitants of fictional Middle Earth are uncannily similar to the kinds of names scientists designate for pharmaceuticals.

Reddit moderator Gallowboob is stepping away from the site after receiving doxxing and death threats.

From Black Voices to MySpace to Instagram, black creativity has defined social media from the start.

Conspiracy theorists claim — without evidence — that coronavirus death figures have been inflated, the lockdown is unlawful and Bill Gates is somehow responsible for it all.

As the site's popularity booms during our current health crisis, some worry their NSFW content will be purged.

Or: What backlink trading on Google has in common with Washington, DC's unusual legal pot economy.

"It was an all-day game. I was thinking about it almost an obsessive amount."

What happens when America's number one teenage content creators move in under one roof? This is the Hype House, through the keyhole.

Maybe you're not craving alone time; maybe, you're craving social novelty. That's where the most chaotic video platform of all time comes in: enter Chatroulette.

Quarantine has inspired all kinds of people to start posting on the "farmer's market of porn." But what about the actual professionals?

Maybe I'm alone here, but almost two months later, I'm still thinking about a truly haunting tweet from America's favorite unlicensed counselor, Dr. Phil McGraw.

Thanks, Mitch McConnell.

While stuck in quarantine, Mandy Patinkin hilariously posted a clip of himself learning how to post on Twitter. In the video, the "Princess Bride" star debates with his wife Kathryn Grody over the meaning of the acronym GIF.

You might want to see how a show fares over various seasons before investing your time into it. A developer named Benjamin Mizrahi came up with a neat solution. He made a web app that rates episodes across all seasons.

Platforms did their best to remove a video with a harmful claim — but more than 8 million people watched it anyway. Facebook and YouTube explain how it happened.

After making some critical comments about Teigen and Marie Kondo in an interview, rising star Roman — creator of viral recipes like #thestew and #thecookies, faces her first big backlash.

If you're a fan of "The Office," you can rewatch the entire series right now… as it might have played out in a world with Slack. That is, as long as people don't ruin it the way people tend to do.

"It's so common to see guys try to play with the big boys and fail miserably. Silvercorp just took it to the extreme."

The meme originally had nothing to do with the pandemic, but now it's impossible to separate the two — and the pallbearers seem okay with that.

We studied 10,000 websites and found that their design has become more uniform over time. What does this mean for the future of creative expression on the internet?

To explore the many, many memes of quarantine, we built a Quarantine House meme.

You know that feeling when you're about to engage in some role-playing and the video chat freezes? Yup, it's that feeling.

Turntable.fm predicted the future of the internet, but didn't survive to see it. The nostalgia for it hints at what could be a new normal — or just a passing fad.

The grocery delivery startup added 300,000 workers in eight weeks, but COVID-19 is still overtaking it in more ways than one.

As COVID-19 shut down its schools, Hamilton County, Tennessee, was ideally situated for the switch to virtual learning. At least in theory.

Local communities fought cooperatively against telecom monopoly domination in the 90s. Now rural North Dakotans have better, faster broadband than many US cities.

In all ways, Jon Townsend lives an old-fashioned life. Except, maybe, when he uploads portions of it to his endearing — and instructive — YouTube channel.

A popular joke about entitled white women is now a big pandemic meme.