On October 20, 2025, The Amazon Web Services (AWS) crashed, resulting in a colossal collapse of internet infrastructure, global industries coming to a standstill, and the brief yet manic realization of society’s crippling reliance on functional Wi-Fi. In layman’s terms, the computers stopped computing, and everything fell apart. However, as the working world came to …
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29-year-old tech-savvy son threatens to remove mother from family cell plan after she continually responds to scam texts, triggering fraud locks on his accounts: ‘[She] asked me to stop being dramatic’
There’s no shame in not understanding how certain technologies work. There is shame, however, in refusing to try to understand them. The kind, older mother in the story below is a testament to many members of older generations’ refusals to adapt to the world around them. In the same way that younger generations couldn’t fathom …
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‘I’m not punishing my kid for doing something hilarious’: Teen gets in trouble for outsmarting school’s IT director and hacking the firewall, mom applauds her son’s intelligence
Being a parent comes with lots of learning moments for both parents and kids. When is it the time to teach your kid a life lesson and when is it the time to pat them on the back and encourage their behavior? It’s up to the parents’ digression and it can be hard to figure …
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Quiet neighbor unintentionally becomes the apartment building’s go-to tech guy, starts to love it even though he’s fully ‘winging’ it: ‘Weirdly, it makes me feel… less alone?’
When this quiet guy moved into a large apartment complex, he didn’t think he would be the neighborly type. He figured he’d keep to himself and live his life. However, one day he helped the elderly woman across the hall reconnect to the wifi and she was so happy, she told all the neighbors he …
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Mom shares story of clever 7-year-old daughter finding a loophole to her rules, sparks hilarious discussion between parents: ‘[My kid] is an Elementary School Lawyer!’
Well, well, well, if it isn’t the children who have never lived without technology starting to outsmart us. As a parent, you feel very split: You feel proud that your kid is so clever and such a fast learner, but you also are starting to get undermined because now your rules against tech are getting …
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‘Straight-up confused Pikachu face’: Electronics store employee kindly helps customer choose a new laptop, only to later reveal he doesn’t work there at all
It’s always funny (or sad, depending on how you’re looking at it) to walk into a store and realize you’re dressed like the employees. This gives you the opportunity to do some really funny things in that store, and possibly get away with it. I wouldn’t be surprised if some Targets out there do not …
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22 SXSW Memes for Folks with Festival FOMO Who Stay A-Lone Star at Home
Honestly, who even wants to go to SXSW? Definitely not me. Why would anyone want to stroll through vibrant Austin streets, sipping craft cocktails under strings of glowing lights, feeling inspired by groundbreaking ideas? Gross. Like, who actually dreams of spending warm Texas evenings drifting between electrifying live music shows, discovering that unknown band that …
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‘The kids yearn for 2014 Tumblr’: Algorithms ruined the original intention of social media and left us uninspired
Though, to many of us, 2014 feels like yesterday, some young internet users are already nostalgic for that not-so-bygone era, one of indie pop, American Apparel, and reblogging moody gifs. It’s called «Tumblrcore» since the axis on which that nostalgia revolves is Tumblr, a social media platform that ruled a certain side of the internet …
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25+ Tech Memes for People Whose Parents Think They’re Computer Geniuses
It’s a near-universal experience of millennials and below that whenever we help an elder with a simple tech problem, they act like we’re Steve Wozniak himself. I’m no coder, I just know how to press control-alt-delete. The folks in my generation grew up with tech all around us. We taught ourselves how to use the …
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28 Google Maps Gags and Blunders for Trolls of the Open Road
Google Maps is probably my favorite piece of technology that’s ever been invented. I would be completely helpless without it, as someone with a minimal innate sense of direction. I need Google Maps in my own neighborhood, on my own block. It’s also how I look for things around me that I might need, like …
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