If you have never been hit with a ransomware attack consider yourself lucky. These attacks cost the victim a great deal of time, money and frustration as they deal with it and in some cases there is no resolution. This has hit many people’s computers and has also spread to people’s phones and now it […]
The reaction to the recent data scandals that have embroiled Facebook have varied. Some people have continued on like normal, some have curbed their usage while others have taken more drastic steps like completely stopping using the platform. This has been, for the most part, up to the individual but that may not be an […]
There are a handful of constants in the Internet when it comes to a message board or comments section. There will inevitably be the person who made $100,000 working from home last year that pops in to promote their pyramid scam, there will be the people who have no idea what is going on but […]
For many who are now in their thirties and older they discovered the Internet in the mid-1990s. Whether it was from a small ISP or though one of the millions of AOL disks that were distributed through the United States and around the world we became connected to the information superhighway. For some that was […]
The Internet has changed the way that people search for jobs. Gone (or nearly so) are the days of searching the newspaper for openings or calling on various local businesses to check for openings. Now this can all be done with the click of a mouse. That itself is not a secret but for a […]
We cannot live without a web browser today. Edge, Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari and hundreds of others are available to make surfing the world wide web easier. Like every technological innovation someone had to take a chance and be the first to not only develop something but to also demonstrate that it was a viable […]
We take the Internet and the companies that provide it (ISPs) for granted today. It almost seems like accessing the Information Superhighway is a right, “endowed by our Creator” and ranking among basic human rights like “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” There was a time when someone had to take a chance and […]
The Internet has done wonders for modern civilization. We can connect with people all over the globe and read about world events as they happen. New skillsets have emerged as well as new jobs (Emoji Expert anyone?) that were relatively unthinkable only a generation ago. Yet this technology has sapped many of critical skills that […]
Your Internet is moving slowly. It happens. Chances are if you’ve called your ISP you’ve sat on hold for a long time listening to bad music. You don’t want to do that, believe me I did over the phone tech support for over 5 years. So you reach into your bag of tricks and you […]
There are all kinds of doomsday scenarios that can play out or have at one point played out in a movie or TV show from a nuclear war to an alien invasion. One of the first things that would be eliminated is the Internet. How would the world react? How would we all react? It […]