Mental Floss

INTERNET



Some of the international names for the @ symbol are downright cute.

In the United States, the @ symbol is called an “at.” But not everybody else uses that name—in fact, some of the international options are downright cute.

Rose Eveleth














Saverio Truglia

Two and a half years ago, Trisha Prabhu began work on ReThink, an anti-cyberbullying app that prompts adolescents to reconsider messages they’re about to text or post. Here, the 15-year-old Illinois student explains how she created a product that could ma

the mag, April Daley








The internet is unstoppable.

These polls went awry once people of the Internet found a way to steer them off track into outrageous (and sometimes insensitive) results.

Erik van Rheenen