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May 6th 2010 was amonumentalday for the Internet. Why? It was the day thefirst everentirely non-Latin script country code top-level domains (ccTLD) went live. If that just made you blurt outhuh?, let me explain. The multilingual Web The World Wide Web has evolved almost beyond all recognition over the past decade – and not just from a technological standpoint. As Iwrotelast month, the Web has typically been very English-centric, but the non-English speaking Web has been catching up over the past ten years....

Rupert and James Murdoch faced the Culture, Media and Sport Committee today, and they were grilled by the MPs for two and a half hours, before it was delayed for 10 minutes by a man who threw shaving foam on Rupert Murdoch before being bundled out of the court room. It’s thought that the man responsible was someone who calls himselfJonnie Marbles– an activist and comedian, among other things – who tweeted shortly before the attack:...

Remember the 8-track? How about a rotary telephone? As life and technology move on, so many of these parts of our history become obsolete. It’s with that in mind that German digital agency Jung von Matt/Next brings us theMuseum of Obsolete Objects.Clicking on an item’s icon will show you a description, just in case you’re not certain what it is. Then you can choose to find out more about the item via a video....

It’s easy to forget about details. In fact, it probably helps keep us sane. If we looked at an object and immediately thought about the intricacies of its construction, our minds would be so chaotic we’d struggle to survive. But just because we don’t live day-to-day existences obsessing over minutiae, doesn’t mean this doesn’t happen. App design is a perfect example of this. When we use something like Spotify or Uber or Deliveroo, we tend to focus on what it does on the surface....

Less than two years ago, no one onTwitterhad more than a million followers. Back then, CNN’s Twitter account was in the lead for “most followers”, and guess what?It wasn’t even run by the company. At the time,Ashton Kutcher, who was even behind Britney Spears, challenged CNN in a competition to reach the coveted million follower milestone. Kutcher put serious effort in,going so far as to purchase billboard ads, and quickly became the first person on Twitter with a million followers....