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NIST warns several of its Internet Time Service servers may be inaccurate due to a power outage
By Luke James published
NIST has warned that several of its Internet Time Service servers could be providing inaccurate time following a failure of the primary atomic time scale at its Boulder, Colorado campus.

Search pioneer AltaVista’s star shone bright with a clean and minimal UI 30 years ago
By Mark Tyson published
Pioneering search engine AltaVista opened its service to the public 30 years ago.

Google killed the 25-year-old Sega Dreamcast PlanetWeb 3.0 web browser this week
By Mark Tyson published
The Sega Dreamcast’s ancient pack-in internet browser was killed by Google earlier this week.

Russian media finally admits Putin is under fire from angry citizens, but it's for the recent Roblox ban
By Mark Tyson published
There's been a Russian youth uprising, with tens of thousands of kids writing to say they want to emigrate because Roblox has been blocked.

Russia allegedly still using Starlink-guided drones in Ukraine, report claims — Starlink Mini strapped to grounded drone points to ongoing issue, despite U.S. DoD claims threat was blunted
By Mark Tyson published
Russian drones are still flying into Ukrainian airspace to strike their targets with Starlink hardware clearly strapped to them, say Ukrainian media reports.

The industry skipped from IPv4 to IPv6, leaving IPv5 and the Internet Stream Protocol to the annals of history
By Mark Tyson published
The Internet's early twisted shoots of growth sometimes led to a dead end, like IPv5.

Gigantic VHS videotape hoard of thousands of videos stored in McDonald's boxes being given away for free
By Mark Tyson published
If you would like to rehome thousands of old VHS videotapes, there’s an incredible hoard being given away for free on Reddit.

37 years ago this week, the Morris worm infected 10% of the Internet within 24 hours
By Mark Tyson last updated
Cornell graduate student Robert Tappan Morris unleashed his eponymous worm upon the Internet 37 years ago, changing the face of cybersecurity.
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