In 1700, barely a decade after the invention of the modern newspaper, the first matrimonial service was created. These services ran ads on behalf of single men and women who were desperate to find a good husband or wife. At the time, being single past 21 carried with it a deep stigma and turning...
Even as little as seven years ago, trying to obtain video on the Internet, much less watching a movie, was a complete nightmare. With much of the Internet still on dialup, it could take hours to download even a three minute music video, days for a feature-length film. Furthermore, the video-watching...
Though Nigerian email scams may be the butt of late-night comedian jokes, online fraud is still alive and well. Scams involving individuals, such as identity theft and financial scams, cost their victims nearly 240 million in 2007 over four times as much as they did in 2004. Sadly, the numbers...
Viruses, spyware and other kinds of unwanted software (collectively referred to as Malware) have not made the news headlines in the past few years, with the possible exception of the "Conflicker" worm earlier this year. Part of this is because they are no longer "new", a key element to being...
Marketers believe that "Free" is the most powerful word in the English language. Whether you're trying to sell cereal or computers, the word "free" is the most compelling thing you can put into your advertisements. Love is no different a service in that regard. Though the Web is famous for its...
The dot-com bubble refers to a stock market bubble that caused a lot of problems when it finally burst in 2001. The dot-com bubble was primarily fed by the explosive growth and popularity of internet web sites and various companies involved in the tech industry. Many companies eventually went under...
The internet is a visual medium. Our eyes are the ones that do the “traveling” when visiting a web site. Adding photos to web site is one of the more effective ways of attracting attention, giving emphasis to content, and illustrating important points. But if you think that posting photos is merely...
Top 100 Blogs Here we have collected what we consider to be the top five blogs in ten different blog categories. This list should give you a good inside track into the vast world of ideas out there on the Internet.
ICANN stands for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This is a non profit corporation with offices at Marina del Rey, California. ICANN has been given the responsibility of managing the logistical aspect of internet protocol (IP) addresses and domain names. ICANN was officially...
No one needs to be told how bad this economy is. Every week it seems thousands more are losing their jobs while countless more are having to scale back their rates or the hours that they work. Incomes everywhere are being choked, causing families to cut corners and miss bills. This has led many...
