You might have wondered why we can’t just settle on one file format to store images in and be done with it. The problem with that is that we all want two things in an image format: we want perfect image preservation, and we want them to load instantly. It turns out, computers being the [...]

Catchy title, no? But seriously, today’s question: Could the Internet become its own nation?

It’s surprising how little it takes to form a nation in the first place. The Internet has

A constant population. There are people who live on it every day.
Its own currency. While no official united money exists, quite a bit of [...]

It always staggers me that the same consumers who think nothing of changing the oil or fixing a flat tire on their car turn pale with dread at the thought of performing similar maintenance on their desktop computer. That’s the whole idea of the IBM-inspired PC - to be an assembly of interchangeable parts. Here [...]