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What did the internet look like before the dotcom bubble burst? Here's a look at the blocky, link-filled homepages of Apple, Amazon, and Geocities in 1999.

In Tales of the Early Internet, Mashable explores online life through 2007 — back before social media and the smartphone changed everything. The year was 1999: Cher's "Believe" was blasting on pop radio stations, Bill Clinton was impeached, Jar Jar Binks hit the Big Screen, and the beep, beep, static of dial-up internet echoed in family rooms across the globe. The World Wide Web was still young then — gawky, awkward, and painfully slow. The dot-com bubble was still growing, on...

Early Internet pioneers such as Lawrence Lessig, Tim Berners Lee and John Perry Barlow imagined a “new frontier of the mind” free from the encumbrances

The Capitol Hill Block Party's 25th-anniversary lineup features headliners Louis the Child, Sofi Tukker, Denzel Curry, and PinkPantheress.

© The Oasis The modern Internet has become a hopeless cesspool of lies, misinformation, malinformation, bad intentions, ignorant good intentions and half-truths, outright hoaxes, slander, cruelty; as well as a refuge for creeps, criminals, thieves, phonies, agent provocateurs, would-be revolutionaries, predators, useless and fake reviews, Satanists, and worse.Linking the entire globe and all the subsystems of corporate archives, personnel records, medical information, electrical grid interacti...

Our digital world wasn’t built with security in mind.