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The options for laughing online are numerous.

Everyone has a preferred way to laugh online, whether it’s an acronym like IJBOL (“I Just Burst Out Laughing”), a reaction GIF, or a crying laughing emoji. Which one do you use?

Gretchen McCulloch




Former Ask Jeeves CEO Steve Berkowitz stands with a cut-out of the search engine's mascot.

Ask Jeeves became a casualty of the search engine wars of the early 2000s. Eventually, their mascot was escorted right out the door.

Jake Rossen




Why so blue?

Unpacking the reason hyperlinks are blue requires dipping into early internet history.

Ellen Gutoskey


The Neopets website.

You might think of Neopets as nothing more than an internet-based Tamagotchi—but they helped pave the way for Web 2.0.

Jake Rossen