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Area Man Honored To Be One Who Added Death Date To Heath Ledger's Wikipedia Page
CEDAR RAPIDS, IA—"I just want to thank the Ledger family for giving me this opportunity," Blake Yardley said. "I'm sure they knew of ...
YouTube Debate Becomes Website's First Ignored Video
The video debates received one comment, two stars, and zero favorites.
Entire Blogosphere Stunned By Blogger's Special Weekend Post
NEW YORK—In what is being called a seminal moment in Internet history, a rare weekend post by 25-year-old blogger Ben Tiedemann on his...
Online Couple Never Chats Anymore
Seattle—"Sometimes I wonder what I ever saw in his online profile," said Baxter, who couldn’t remember the last time she and Tim Siegal ...
Area Man Asked To Shoot Janice An E-mail
DOVER, MD—According to fellow employees who observed the scene, office assistant Brian Rockwell has been asked to shoot Janice an e-mail...
NASA Announces Plan To Bring Wi-Fi To Its Headquarters By 2017
HOUSTON—Still relying on a single dial-up modem, NASA employees continue to get disconnected when someone at the Johnson Space Center picks up the phone ...
Pitchfork Gives Music 6.8
CHICAGO—According to the review, the popular medium that predates the written word shows promise but nonetheless "leaves the listener wanting more."
Mortgage Market Collapse Threatens Nation's Banner Ad Industry
NEW YORK—With the mortgage market reeling from massive loan defaults, analysts are now predicting disaster for the banner ad industry ....
Hard To Tell If Wikipedia Entry On Dada Has Been Vandalized Or Not
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND—The Wikipedia entry on Dada—the World War I–era "anti-art" movement characterized by random nonsense words,...
Day Spent On Internet Comes Full Circle
DAYTON, OH—A day of web surfing poetically ended just as it began Monday, when a random string of links brought area man Howard Nagel ...
Second Life Makes Dream Of Owning Fictitious Coffee Shop Come True
HAILEY, ID—As a teenager, Kerry Jarrett never thought she would have the opportunity to own and operate a completely fabricated coffee shop...
MySpace Outage Leaves Millions Friendless
BEVERLY HILLS, CA—It is feared the sudden lack of online companionship could inflict long-term psychological damage among MySpace's 150 million users.
'Most E-Mailed' List Tearing New York Times' Newsroom Apart
NEW YORK—Nearly two dozen staffers, including four Pulitzer Prize winners and a Baghdad correspondent, have requested transfers to the Times' Home and Garden and ...
Amazon.com Recommendations Understand Area Woman Better Than Husband
SANDUSKY, OH—The 36-year-old Meyers said she appreciates how the online retailer sometimes sends her e-mails "out of the blue."
Area Man Accidentally Responds To Own 'M4M' Ad
ATLANTA—A Craigslist personal advertising a "Hot WM Looking 4 Same – 28" was accidentally responded to this Monday by its author,...














