My day doing everything the internet told me to

I lost my heart to a Lego Star Wars sandtrooper: what Amazon suggests Benji Lanyado might want to buy. In the early days of the web, as internet explorers anonymously scoured its provincial nooks,…
PUBLISHED: May 7, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2517 words)

How tiny Estonia stepped out of USSR's shadow to become an internet titan

A Nato cyberwarfare base in Tallinn set up after Estonia's internet access was paralysed by DOS attacks blamed on Russia. Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi for the Guardian In 1995, four years after…
PUBLISHED: April 15, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1791 words)
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