There was a time, a while ago, when spammers made a real effort. You got a back-story worthy of a (fairly drunk) Dickens; spinning tales of doomed airline flights, lost gold bullion and Nigerian names which look like a bad hand at Scrabble. Some of you may know that under […]

Rewind seventeen years – Ace of Base was on the radio, Shindler’s List won 7 Oscars and Nelson Mandela became President of South Africa. And nobody knew what the Internet was. On US television, The Today Show hosts Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel certainly didn’t. In this video clip from January 24th […]

So the Home Office has put up a new website showing crime spots across the UK and it promptly crashed. This shouldn’t be any surprise or a real issue. If 4 million people try to access just about any site in a day, especially one as database-intensive as that one […]

Lawyers and Facebook? Well lawyers and most things don’t mix, but this is a bit extreme. For Mustafa Fteja, Facebook is more than just a hobby. It’s the main way the 30-year-old Albanian native has stayed in touch with friends and family all over the world for three years, and […]

A very worrying graph, and a V for Vendetta inspired response. First it was Facebook. Then it was Twitter. Now, in the face of massive protests in the streets of Cairo and throughout the country, Egypt has pulled the plug on the entire Internet for its citizens. As that chart […]

TheEye is recovering from a weekend of work by builders and decorators (mostly just raiding the coffee supplies it seemed), and so has been off the radar – largely banished to the rooftop patio with weak wireless signal and a laptop with a sticky “c” key. Nevertheless, the time was […]

In another twitch from the Führerbunker in the last days of the war, our mad drug-addled leader is sending 874 regiments against Moscow giving us all a free webpage! Woohoo! An article in the Daily Labourgraph (with this picture…what’s her web address please? Mmmmm) makes for amusing reading: The Prime […]

And so the Internet reaches the age of maturity – a splendid 40 not-out. On October 29 1969, the first Arpanet network connection between remote computers was established. Arpanet was, as any fule kno, the military precursor to what we now know as the internet (the term “internetting” would not […]