digital media
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Relive the Internet of the ’90s With ‘Neocities’
Remember using dialup in the 1990s? Back when the technology was new, the online world wasn’t overrun with corporations, and everyone was basically trying to figure out what the internet even was? If you miss those days and you want to revisit an information superhighway where regular people created quirky online homes for themselves instead…
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How to Dial Back Your Kid’s Out-of-Control Screen Time
At the beginning of the pandemic, parents everywhere agreed: A little extra screen time was not going to hurt our kids. In many cases, particularly for older kids, those tablets and smartphones were their lifeline to their friends. My son, who was nine years old when the world shut down, traded in soccer practice and…
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It Now Costs Over $20 To Watch DVDs On Your Windows PC
One of the things about being PC-literate is that everyone you know becomes a potential source of new information. In solving other people’s problems, I get to learn about lots of things that I might not have otherwise come across. One of those moments happened recently. And it was a rude awakening.
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Shock Horror! TV Network Using Digital Technology
A perennial theme around Lifehacker in recent weeks has been the fact that TV networks are a bit clueless about the modern world. Turns out the cluelessness runs pretty deep.