In 2007, a small team at Yahoo! briefly changed how we program the internet. This is their story.

What did Australians do online in the 1990s? Shared bioinformatics data, made cyberfeminist zines, cruised the information superhighway …

Spotify said it has agreed to acquire Megaphone, which offers technology for podcast publishers and advertisers seeking targeted slots on podcasts.

Reddit’s unpopular decision to revise its API pricing in a move that’s forcing third-party apps out of business has taken a weird turn. In an AMA hosted today by Reddit co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman, aka u/spez on the internet forum site, the exec doubled down on accusations against the developer behind the well-liked third-party […]

Well, it happened. We knew it was coming. A prick pulled the plug. And what bothers me most about it is how Space Karen did it. My mom passed away just before Christmas. Her decline was something everyone in the family saw coming and we prepared for her demise. It still hurts like hell, but […]

Thoughts on Twitter, Mastodon, and owning your data

Thousands of users have joined Mastodon since Elon Musk took control of Twitter. Founder Eugen Rochko says that's been a vindication

Aulia Masna of Macworld Indonesia interviews Loren Brichter, the creator of Tweetie for Mac and iPhone.

Discord, Mastodon, and other services are bustling as Twitter fans make backup plans for their online social lives.

Twitter has a new CEO. And he'd like to see your code, please

Read to the end for a good meme about British politics

Way before social media, listservs acted as a glue that held the web community together.

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The untold story about how the internet became social, and why this matters for its future "Whether you're reading this for a nostalgic romp or to understand the dawn of the internet, The Modem World will delight you with tales of BBS culture and shed light on how the decisions of the past shape our current networked world."--danah boyd, author of It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens Fifteen years before the commercialization of the internet, millions of amateurs across North America created more than 100,000 small-scale computer networks. The people who built and maintained these dial-up bulletin board systems (BBSs) in the 1980s laid the groundwork for millions of others who would bring their lives online in the 1990s and beyond. From ham radio operators to HIV/AIDS activists, these modem enthusiasts developed novel forms of community moderation, governance, and commercialization. The Modem World tells an alternative origin story for social media, centered not in the office parks of Silicon Valley or the meeting rooms of military contractors, but rather on the online communities of hobbyists, activists, and entrepreneurs. Over time, countless social media platforms have appropriated the social and technical innovations of the BBS community. How can these untold stories from the internet's past inspire more inclusive visions of its future?

The history of the internet is repeatedly reduced to the story of the singular Arpanet. But BBSs were just as important—if not more.

This episode tells the stories of some of the worlds biggest spamming botnets. We'll talk about the botnets Rustock, Waledac, and Cutwail. We'll discover who was behind them, what their objectives ...

Twitter’s product leaders have their work cut out for them.

An interview with the author of Web3 Is Going Just Great

Things look a little different around The Verge today. Very different. Like a thousand lasers shining through your mind, pointing at the future.