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Who’s Addicted to the Internet?

Posted on Jun 4, 2010 in Infographics | 0 comments

One in eight Americans exhibits Internet behavior that interferes with daily life and healthy relationship. That’s about 12% in the country. Things are worse in Asia. 30% of Koreans report that their internet usage is problematic. Is Tweeting or Facebooking really the new street drug? [Via: Online Nursing...

The Stats on Internet Pornography

Posted on Jun 3, 2010 in Infographics | 0 comments

Pornography has been traded online since the 1980’s, even in the form of ASCII art, and then, with the rise of the world wide web in the 1990’s, adult webistes began springing up everywhere. Here are the figures for the enormous world of internet pornography. [Via: Online...

The history of RickRolling

Posted on Jun 2, 2010 in Infographics | 0 comments

Rickrolling is an Internet meme typically involving the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley song “Never Gonna Give You Up”. The meme is a bait and switch: a person provides a web link that they claim is relevant to the topic at hand, but the link actually takes the user to the Astley video. The link can be masked or obfuscated in some manner so that the user cannot determine the...

History of Hacking

Posted on May 29, 2010 in Infographics | 1 comment

Hacking has been around as long as computers as a way to reconfigure or reprogram a system to give access to someone who otherwise shouldn’t have access. In the media, any electronics manipulation is often referred to as hacking, though “cracking” may often be more appropriate. Thanks to hacking, computer geeks can be cool and dangerous. [Via: Online...