You know what CAPTCHA is? It’s that thing that makes you enter letters and numbers on a website to prove you’re a human, and not a machine hell-bent on learning our human ways and killing us all by downloading a .zip file. It’s probably the thing I hate most about the internet, so it’s lovely to hear that someone’s trying to replace the system with simple games.
Scourge of internet comments sections and saviour of countless rainy days, the humble animated GIF file turns 25 this year. To celebrate, here’s a ton of the things compiled in a mildly nauseating video.
The rigamarole is always the same: big game is released, problems ensue. But for Diablo III, the launch was bigger — 12 years in the making. And the problems? They seem bigger, too. And when that happens, people get angry.
It was a touching scene. A young American male sat outside of a McDonalds in Nanjing, sharing a meal with a homeless lady. He had purchased two orders of French fries and poured water into her water bottle.
Akamai’s released its statistics on average worldwide internet connection speeds. The interesting news is that, despite advances in connection technologies, the average worldwide speed has actually dropped, although Australia is bucking that trend.