Dead Internet Theory: A.I. Killed the Internet submitted by /u/GameOverture

MTV News Has Been Saved by the Internet Archive (Sort of) MTV’s parent company has pulled the plug, but you can still access decades’ worth of journalism.

Satelite internet in Tanzania? I am trying to figure out how to get a satelite hotspot for a trip to remote areas of Tanzania. Any recommendations? I was looking at Starlink, but it doesn’t seem like htey’re licensed in that country yet. Does anybody have any experience with this sstuff? I’m not the most tech savvy lol. submitted by /u/yanuara1996

Supreme Court rules in major internet speech cases Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos via Getty ImagesOn Monday, the Supreme Court issued its decision in two consequential cases about the future of speech on the internet. The Supreme Court vacated the appeals court decisions in Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v. Paxton, ruling that neither court adequately analyze whether the so…

Starlink Mini brings space internet to backpackers Starlink’s new Mini dish next to an Earth puppy. | Image: Michael Nicolls via XSpaceX’s Starlink internet-from-space service is already available for boats, planes, vanlifers, Amazonian villages, and rural homes in over 75 countries — now it’s coming to backpackers. The new compact DC-powered Starlink Mini is about the size of a thick laptop and…

Sebastian Bach: “Before the internet, rock used to be about the fun” submitted by /u/Boring_Ant_1677

Casey Neistat revolutionized the way the internet makes videos now Casey Neistat introduced his style of film making when we became popular on YouTube. When he started vlogging around 2015 (I think?) he quickly became ultra popular. His style of vlogging and editing quick snippets of video together was picked up by every corner of YouTube and TikTok. I feel like no one has ever mentioned this, but his style was…

The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet TMS or Like the Wind was recorded off of a German radio station sometime in 1984. The crew over at r/TheMysteriousSong (which I am apart of) has been searching ever since. I’d love to hear everyone’s thoughts on the mystery as it remains one of the few Lost waves that has not been found. With EKT and several of the others out of the way, we real…

The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet TMS or Like the Wind was recorded off of a German radio station sometime in 1984. The crew over at r/TheMysteriousSong (which I am apart of) has been searching ever since. I’d love to hear everyone’s thoughts on the mystery as it remains one of the few Lost waves that has not been found. With EKT and several of the others out of the way, we real…

Cruise ship internet / data Earned an all inclusive 7 day Mediterranean cruise. Flying out from Canada to Greece. Will be departing Greece and stopping at Crete, Montenegro, Croatia and finally Italy. I’ll be doing an extra step and flying from Italy to UK for a few days to catch up with my mum. I wanted to know if there is such a thing as a SIM card or data plan I can p…

A pandemic-era internet subsidy is officially ending Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty ImagesMay 31st marks the official last day of a covid-19 pandemic-era internet subsidy, the Affordable Connectivity Program. The up to $30 monthly broadband discount (up to $75 for those on Tribal lands) helped 23 million low-income households in every county in the US access high-speed internet duri…

Comcast rolls out ‘Now’ prepaid phone and internet plans Image: ComcastComcast announced today that it’s expanding its “Now” branding to include two prepaid services: Now Internet and Now Mobile. Of the two, the mobile plan appears to be genuinely new, as it’s a prepaid cellular option that offers unlimited 5G data, talk, and text for $25 a month per line. The mobile plan also has free access to the c…

The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat Photo by Go Takayama for The VergeOn the afternoon of March 11th, 2011, Mitsuyoshi Hirai, the chief engineer of the cable maintenance ship Ocean Link, was sitting in his cabin 20 miles off Japan’s eastern coast, completing the paperwork that comes at the end of every repair. Two weeks earlier, something — you rarely knew what — damaged the 13,00…

The internet really is a series of tubes Image: Alex Parkin / The VergeHundreds of cables. Hundreds of thousands of miles. The internet runs, in vastly more ways than we realize or think about, through a series of garden-hose size tubes on the ocean floor. Without those tubes, the modern world sort of collapses. And the folks responsible for keeping them functioning have bigger, harder…

The Internet and Cigarettes When I open the door to “the internet” these days, I see a typhoon of garbage swirling around.  This is good if you’re trying to quit! I came across a fairly passionate rant, I published in the forum, some months back…. “The curtain can be pulled back and the machinations, revealed, because our society is

Internet Traffic Dipped as Viewers Took in the Eclipse Internet traffic dropped by 40 percent or more during the eclipse in states in the path of totality, including Maine, New Hampshire and Ohio, Cloudflare found.

SpaceX’s new Starlink satellite internet terminal has a kickstand Starlink Standard terminal | Image: SpaceXSpaceX quietly introduced a new Standard Starlink terminal that’s slimmer and simpler than the previous version, with a 10 percent broader field of view and no motor for setting up — instead, it comes with a kickstand; to orient it, you simply move it. A Starlink support page says the kit is available “b…

LPT Affiliate marketers are the internet’s telemarketer salesmen, be aware of them. You probably have seen these videos of people talking about a product and how they use it in an organic and natural way saying they got it out of need and then saying how it was a great surprise and a good purchase… Until you realise they have affiliate links in their bio or video description. It’s a new type of ad designed to copy the real re…

LPT Printing/emailing/reading recipes off the internet When finding a recipe you want to try, and the page is filled with ads and narrative, enter the recipe name and key ingredients and you get a clean recipe. submitted by /u/deephaven

A site that confirms ‘Yes, this is really me’ on the internet – feedback? submitted by /u/delpiero24