Chris Oakes reviews the early days of NewHoo and compares it with competitors Yahoo and Mining Company.

Article on the initiation of the web service that later became about.com.

Article about hackers who cheat the pay-to-surf schemes and how the operators of the schemes try to stop them. From Wired News.

Reuters report announcing the end of the coffee pot webcam.

Katie Hafner's overview in Wired, with an interview of Vint Cerf by Steve Cisler.

An article by Barlow about patents and copyrights in the Digital Age.

Article by Barlow about the perceived threats of technological change.

The human gene pool should be incapable of producing enough idiots to financially support the vast number of spammers whose scat litters so many inboxes. Turns out, most spammers make money selling e-mail addresses to other spammers, who then sell tho...

Hackers from around the world will converge on MIT on Friday to swap intelligence and marshal their collective brainpower for the fight against a seemingly indomitable opponent. This time it's not Microsoft, DirecTV or the Recording Industry Associati...

On Monday, the two co-founders of AvantGo launched a new spam filter that takes the most drastic anti-spam approach possible: Users only receive e-mail from people on a list of pre-approved senders.