People arrested for dumb social media posts kind of had it coming to them. From the teens who jokingly threaten lives on Twitter to those who took to Facebook to organize full-scale riots, all of these people have one thing in common: each were arrested for a common-sense-bending social media post. In our world where …
The Internet is an equally dark and entertaining place, where one can discover delights that you didn’t know existed alongside horrible things that you wish you could forget. It’s sort of like the Diagon Alley of the real world. For proof of this theory, you need only to look at the Google Maps secrets collected …
For over 30 years and nearly 1,000 shows, Fred Rogers created the friendly world of Mister Rogers’s Neighborhood for children to enjoy across the nation. Thankfully, Mr. Rogers turned out to be the same generous, amicable, neighborly man off camera that he was during his PBS program. Here are 14 things that you didn’t know about Mr. Rogers, the man many people consider …
There are some corporate juggernauts whose names instantly evoke their logos. Starbucks. Coca-Cola. Google. You can picture them, right? But looking at the evolution of corporate logos over time reveals many of the most iconic logos in the world started as something radically different. The list below shows how some of the most famous logos …
In 2014, two separate Reddit users—ShyneBox and mitch3a—posted essentially the same question to AskReddit, several months apart: What are some events in history that you never would’ve guessed happened around the same time? The response was awesome, with almost 15,000 combined comments. Super-popular blogger Jason Kottke linked to both threads and the conversation spread like …
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The Internet has its good and bad qualities, but overall, it’s brought the people of the world closer together. It allows anyone to find information with a mere keystroke, and lets web surfers see far-flung destinations. Of course, it also allows anyone to witness embarrassing moments caught on Google Street View and charted on Google …
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Who are the most influential people in history? Here’s a good place to start. This is a list of every person who has ever been immortalized in a Google Doodle, in order from the very first to the most recent. The first Google Doodle appeared on the search engine homepage instead of the familiar colorful …
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The most evil Internet company is the one that requires you to add them on Facebook to read an article, makes you sign away your first born in their terms of service, and invades your privacy, including all your contacts on your smartphone. These evil Internet companies do all of that and then some but …