I miss the days when the Internet was simple; when I’d sit in my dad’s office chair, fire up Windows 95 and log on to AOL, listening to the dial-up tone (without realising at the time just how incredibly nostalgic it would become) and waiting for the lady with the ...

It was August 6, 1991, at a CERN facility in the Swiss Alps, when 36-year-old physicist Tim Berners-Lee published the first-ever website. It was, not surprisingly, a pretty basic one — according to CERN: Info.cern.ch was the address of the world’s first-ever web site and web server, running on a NeXT ...

I have been reading Douglas Rushkoff’s writings on cyberculture since the early 1990s when I did my senior dissertation on Cyberpunk Literature. Although he was not the only one at the time writing critical essays about a future where humans and machines became increasingly indistinguishable, his was a voice that ...

There are some things in this world that will never be forgotten, this week’s 42nd anniversary of the moon landing for one. But Moore’s Law and our ever-increasing quest for simpler, smaller, faster and better widgets and thingamabobs will always ensure that some of the technology we grew up with ...

I’ll admit, I’m a sucker for cool new technology. My Ipad is just as much a permanent a fixture in our house as the living room couch, and if a day goes by where I can’t check email I start feeling anxiety, followed by dizziness, and excessive twithcy thumbs – ...

Pediatricians: No Energy Drinks For Kids; Greatly Limit Use of Sports Drinks: Most children and adolescents do not need sports drinks according to a clinical report published in the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). The report also finds that energy drinks are never appropriate for children or ...

Welcome to another edition of Plug-ins for Privacy! I’m featuring two very different plug-ins for this edition. One of these plug-ins makes standard browser controls more complete, and the other one… well, that’s a surprise. A bloody surprise. [This is a guest post by Cyrus Nemati, Web Producer for the Center ...

Posting Images of Our Kids Online: What Are the Rules?: Much has been publicized about how important it is for parents to monitor their kids’ use of technology, but what are the guidelines for parents of small children? (CNN.com) Family Meals Benefit Health of Children: A study in the journal Pediatrics finds ...

If you’re a desktop browser nerd, these are some very exciting times. Electrifying new releases of Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Opera might have you absolutely giddy. I know I can barely contain myself. There is, however, a world beyond our safe desktop browser walls. It’s the world in which ...

Tech Expert provides some Pointers For Parents: The media attention brought to the increasing number of young suicides as a result of bullying is causing families distress. But there are some things that parents can do to protect their children fr...