The Gopher protocol isn't supported by the modern web basically at all, but despite this, it lingers on, a quarter century from its peak. Here's how.

The search giant must change how it provides some of its services to comply with the competition decision in Europe.

A trove of internal documents sheds light on the algorithms that Facebook’s censors use to differentiate between hate speech and legitimate political expression.

How’s your community doing these days? Would you describe it as healthy? What would it even mean to attach the word “health” to an online community?

Google has started removing private medical records from its search results, after adjusting its policy regarding personal information. The change was made on Thursday to include the “confidential, personal medical records of private people” in the bracket of information Google may remove unprompted from search results. Other examples of such information include national or government issued identification numbers, bank account numbers, credit card numbers and images of signatures.

The soft touch of Yahoo versus the suspected iron fist of Verizon.

Twitch, the popular game-streaming site owned by Amazon, just inked a deal with one of the most popular game developers to broadcast a host of game..

As the nation’s opioid crisis worsens, authorities are confronting a resurgent, unruly player in the illicit trade of the deadly drugs, one that threatens to be even more formidable than the cartels: The Internet. In a growing number of arrests and overdoses, law enforcement officials say, the drugs are being bought online.

Wanna become an Instagram star? Now, you can get a formal education for that. A university in China is offering courses that are meant to equip students with the skills they need for online fame.

Peanut butter and jelly. Mac and cheese. Puppies and fashion. Some things just go well together. 

If you know what to look for, scam emails aren’t too difficult to spot. They’re usually written in broken English and may even mention the cliché of a Nigerian prince in need of money that’s so overused it’s become an internet-wide joke. The classic formula may feel like it’s run its course, but according to researchers, it’s even more effective now that more people recognize it.

The story of the scatological film from São Paulo, Brazil that terrorized the world and created the YouTube reaction video.

Michael Moore is starting a new secure website called "Trumpileaks" for whistleblowers to share information from the Trump administration.

Theresa May looks set to launch wide-ranging internet regulation and plans to fundamentally change how technology works despite not having won a majority.

Major tech companies and nonprofit groups have signed on to a “day of action” next month to protest the FCC’s planned rollback of net neutrality rules. Organized by nonprofit group Fight for the Future, the protest will include Amazon, Etsy, Reddit, Mozilla, the ACLU, and several others, who have all agreed to show their support for net neutrality on July 12th. In 2014, a similar list of companies agreed to post banners on their websites showing support for regulation.

The controversial right-wing site that's been the target of boycotts had 26 advertisers in May, down from 242 in March.

TNW spoke with Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde about the miserable state of the internet and how we've lost the chance to decentralize it.

A toast to feminist site The Toast, and to making the internet a better place.

A genre that partially defined the last decade of the Internet has essentially disappeared.

This is the same process that happened with the commission’s proposal to kill the 2015 net neutrality rules. An initial draft was published last month, and yesterday we got to see the revised draft that ended up being voted on. In between, there were plenty of comments made for the FCC to look at: 2.6 million as of today. (Though tens of thousands appear to be fake.)

Dave Winer won’t link to Facebook posts from his blog. I don’t either.

Mark Zuckerberg now acknowledges the dangerous side of the social revolution he helped to start. But is the most powerful tool for connection in human history capable of adapting to the world it created?

They spent years testing Google's algorithms—then everything changed.

In a surprise move, ExtraTorrent decided to shut down today, for good. Users who access the site’s homepage are welcomed by a short but clear message, indicating that the popular torrent index will not return (the message appears intermittently). “ExtraTorrent has shut down permanently.” “ExtraTorrent with all mirrors goes offline.. We permanently erase all data. Stay away from fake ExtraTorrent websites and clones. Thx to all ET supporters and torrent community. ET was a place to be….”

Imzy, the kinder, gentler online community platform, will be shutting down on June 23rd. Company co-founder Dan McComas made the announcement in a blog post today, stating his apologies and explaining to the community Imzy just couldn’t find its place in the market. McComas and his partner Jessica Moreno left their jobs at Reddit and headed to Salt Lake City, Utah in the summer of 2015 to launch their idea for a more inclusive social board. But it turns out that wasn’t something a lot of people were into, and now Imzy has to close up shop on its idealistic experiment in being nice on the internet.

In today’s hyper-connected world, it is becoming harder and harder for anyone to maintain their privacy. Is it time we just gave up on the idea altogether?

Learn how you can increase your search traffic by increasing how frequently you blog. Read about the ROI regular blogging can achieve for your business.

Bookmarking sites Pinboard and Delicious were rivals for years. Pinboard came out on top, and its partly thanks to fanfiction.

An ad blocker that uses computer vision appears to be the most powerful ever devised and can evade all known anti ad blockers.

Crowdfunded online publication from Jimmy Wales will pair paid journalists with army of volunteer contributors

A web of secret online identities connects the creator of the misogynistic Red Pill forum to a New Hampshire state representative.

Turkey has blocked Wikipedia, the country’s telecommunications watchdog has said, citing a law that allows it to ban access to websites deemed obscene or a threat to national security. The move is likely to further worry rights groups and Turkey’s western allies, who say Ankara has curtailed freedom of speech and other basic rights in the crackdown that followed last year’s failed coup.

A service that claims to be the only way to do email in a secure way is actually riddled with flaws, opening it up to hackers, according to a researcher. Being the owner of an email address can be a pain in the ass. Other than the barrage of back-and-forth daily messages and the reply all apocalypses, there's always the risk that someone hacks into it and your most intimate, confidential emails all of a sudden end up on WikiLeaks.

The road to post-Owl Google from the World Wide Web project isn’t straight. But it does have some fascinating insights into how our online world took on its present shape.