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 ...

Ah, the 1970s. A simpler time, when kids played outdoors and parents weren’t burdened with concerns like whether superheroes were bad for their kids or if their car seats actually kept their kids safe. Yep, back then all you needed was a couple large cardboard boxes and a utility knife to ...

I've been in the internet for 15 years, worked in data security at Visa, and most recently at Yahoo!, and still I was "phished" by a Yahoo! ID scam a few weeks ago. It was pretty tame stuff. The scammers sent an email with another phishing link to my e...

Computer details: Inspiron M1530, Vista Home Premium, 32-bit Rarely are websites for children educational – and if they are, they grow old really fast.  I’ve been on my share of kid’s game sites, looking for something for my child to play (and learn at the same time – otherwise, we’ll just ...

Totsy.com is an invite only Flash Sales website (Flash Sale: Limited time only offering with very limited quantity as well). The original site that started this in my mind was guilt.com but Totsy is geared towards women and children clothing and other goodies. Today they’re flash sale is NOM (maternity clothes) ...