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The Internet’s Best 404 Error Pages

8:30AM December 8, 2011 | Casey Chan

The internet isn’t just a bunch of cables, wires, modems, computers, silicon, protocols, h-tee-tee-pees and h-tee-em-els. There are people behind it! People with personality. People who like to laugh. People who put up hilarious 404 error pages so whenever something goes wrong on the Internet, people will remember that they exist! More »


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Point And Click: 8 Photo Hosting Websites Compared

8:00AM November 24, 2011 | Gord Goble - MaximumPC

Facebook. Flickr. Picasa. Photobucket. Even those who still consider the internet the work of demons and wizards know the names. And chances are virtually everyone in your posse has used at least one or more of these giants to host and share their personal photos. More »


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The Dead Live Forever On The Internet

11:13AM September 14, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

Sorry folks, this story is not about the hippie band from San Francisco. It’s about dead people and the websites that let you memorialise them. More »


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Amazon Is Testing A Tablet-Focused Web Site Redesign

7:00AM September 5, 2011 | Jack Loftus

The Amazon tablet is real. TechCrunch played with it. We made a mockup. The Internet had a field day. The only thing left for Amazon to do now is prepare, and prepare they have. More »


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Animal-Friendly PETA Porn Coming Soon

9:15AM August 22, 2011 | Jack Loftus

To save the animals we must lie down naked with the animals. At least, uh, that’s the gist of this PETA porn site news I’ve been chewing on today as I try and understand what it all means. More »


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Adobe Muse Lets You Build Websites Without Any Coding Knowledge

4:30PM August 15, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Adobe has a new Muse — graphic designers. While “Muse” is just a working title, the beta of the graphic design software has gone live which lets users work around the fact they don’t know a scrap of code. More »


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Why Do Restaurant Websites Suck?

1:20AM August 11, 2011 | Kwame Opam

Slate’s Farhad Manjoo did a piece recently taking restaurant websites to task for being so awful most of the time. Flash-heavy and obsessed with entertaining instead of informing, they’re often murder on the eyes. But why? Probably because designers get paid so well to do it. More »


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Behold The Greatest 404 Error Page On The Entire Internet

4:00PM August 3, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Ah, shit! 404 error! This website is broken! I’m pissed! Someone fix this website! This is a pain! How do I find what I’m looking for! Argh! Oh wait, this is actually cooler than most other websites. More »


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When Will Websites Stop Ripping Each Other Off Online?

6:20PM May 26, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

We’ve used plenty of The Oatmeal’s funny comics in the past, here on Giz. But that’s always been with artist Matthew Inman’s permission, full attribution and a link back to the site. Some websites aren’t so generous. More »


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This Is The Closest Thing Boston Had To A Website In 1945

10:40AM May 20, 2011 | Adrian Covert

The internet was 25 years away from inception when this photo was taken in 1945, but the Boston Globe had another way to rapidly disseminate breaking news amongst the masses: chalkboards in a busy city intersection. [Boston Globe]