This mix of brains and fun, as well as underlying sweetness helped propel xkcd from a hobby to a full-time job for the 23-year-old former NASA roboticist.

I decided to sketch illustrated versions of a couple of my favorite social media and tech news websites.

Now, you have an unprecedented opportunity to witness one man's descent into insanity online.

The Internet is the most efficient information distribution system ever known. But if you're not careful, it's also the perfect way to embarrass yourself in front of the entire world.

"2^24 comments ought to be enough for anyone" -- CmdrTaco

I began writing Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails based on the thesis that Abraham Lincoln's telegrams made him the first online president.

Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it

An Indian physicist puts a PC with a high speed internet connection in a wall in the slums and watches what happens.

no one seems to be fact checking any more

L'argumentum ad Google est analogue à la parole d'Évangile (« si c'est écrit dans tel ou tel livre, c'est que c'est vrai »).

The integrated RAMAC was about two refrigerators in width and not quite as tall, and it literally weighed a ton. Its 50 24-inch platters were in a stack inside the unit, in an assembly that spun at 1200 revolutions per minute. The unit used two magnetic r

People who illegally share music files online are also big spenders on legal music downloads, research suggests

On July 14th, the name “MP3″ celebrates its tenth anniversary.

Video blogs -- also known by their shorter, clunkier name, vlogs -- are blogs that primarily feature video shorts instead of text.

Ten years later, the story of Suck.com, the first great website

In Hollywood, where everyone's a freelancer and career networking veers between art and warfare, a new weapon is emerging as champion: instant messaging.

Next time you're walking down a city sidewalk, look out for the internet. It's all around you -- and not just in the phone lines and cables running under the streets or in the airborne Wi-Fi streams.

Now turn off your computer and go outside and play.