Internet Basics
In Internet Basics, learn about the basic components of the World Wide Web and common tools that can make or break your Internet experience: search engines, Web browsers, RSS, spam and more.
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The Truth About Cloud Storage and Its Future
5 Ways to Keep Your Information Secure in the Cloud
Are my files really safe if I store them in the cloud?
Can the Internet Break From Overuse?
Could an Attack on Undersea Cables Take Down the Internet?
Net Neutrality Is Gone. How Could That Affect You?
How to End an Email
Could Your Computer Help You Be More Polite?
If You BCC Someone on an Email, Can the Recipient Find Out?
How to Enable Google Chrome Dark Mode on All Your Devices
How to Delete a Gmail Account
How Websites Use 'Dark Patterns' to Trick You Online
How to Enable Facebook Dark Mode
Poe's Law Explains a Lot About the Modern Internet
How to Change Your Twitter Handle
Google Easter Eggs: Sweet Treats Hidden in Plain Sight
10 Reasons Why You Should Care About Net Neutrality
What is deep linking?
What's the Difference Between a Modem and a Router?
Why Haven't WhatsApp and Other Text Messaging Apps Taken Off in the U.S.?
Data Sent via Infrared Light Could Make WiFi Hundreds of Times Faster
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Want to know where and when the next big flu outbreak will take place? The answer might be as fast, and as close, as a Google search.
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About 40 percent of the world's population uses the Web for news, entertainment and communication, but in truth, only a sliver of what we know as the World Wide Web is easily accessible.
Since the advent of the Internet, we've been producing data in staggering amounts. Who's collecting it, and should we be worried?
The dot-com bubble produced plenty of companies that spent and grew too quickly and couldn't sustain themselves, but some burned out in spectacular style. Here are 10 tech companies that lived fast and died young.
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Millions of mobile devices, computers and data centers make up the Internet. Machines join and drop off every second, and each requires electricity. Is it possible to measure how much juice the Internet uses?
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Proxy servers and proxy server software can help you hide your IP address. Learn how to hide an IP address from this article.
If you have Windows 7 or Windows Vista, you'll find your temporary Internet files on your C drive. Learn how to find temporary Internet files from this article.