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A Reprise for a 19th-Century Language Based on Music

A French music teacher spent more than three decades creating Solresol. After he died in 1862, it was largely forgotten.

Jacquelyn Thayer April 12, 2018

Venus of Willendorf customarily lives in the Viennese Museum of Natural History.

The Online Censorship of a 30,000-Year-Old Statuette

Facebook puts the kibosh on the Venus of Willendorf.

Natasha Frost February 28, 2018

Does this look like candy to you?

An Anthropologist Explains Why We Want to Eat Tide Pods

But you really shouldn't swallow laundry tablets.

Anne Ewbank January 19, 2018

This year's atrocious, beautiful cake.

The Mother and Daughter Charming the Internet With Ugly Cakes

It's their birthday tradition.

Paula Mejia January 16, 2018

San Francisco, California

Encryption Lava Lamps

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

Tombili.

Istanbul, Turkey

Tombili

A meow-velous tribute to a beloved street cat, made famous on the internet.

Just a bit of the BPL's 200,000-piece record collection.

Digitizing the Boston Public Library's Forgotten Record Collection

It will take years, but all 200,000 pieces of vinyl discovered in a basement will one day be available to the public.

Ashawnta Jackson October 24, 2017

A rat, probably searching for cables to mess up.

The Rat-Related Internet Outage in Ontario

Why don't the rats want us to be online?

Cara Giaimo July 7, 2017

Heart eyes.

Amersfoort, Netherlands

Plein Rond de Eik

The gargoyles and grotesques of the 21st century are here—22 emoji built into a new building in the Netherlands.

RIP, Second Life bunnies.

Bunnies Have Gone Extinct in Second Life's Virtual World

A catastrophic resource shortage plays out online.

Cara Giaimo May 22, 2017

Please Look at These Turtles, Wolf Blitzer

With #ShowWolfATurtle, reptile biologists court a prominent new herp fan.

Cara Giaimo May 15, 2017

Internet Archive headquarters

San Francisco, California

Internet Archive Headquarters

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

Akihabara Electric Town

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

The Bizarre Drama Over the Internet's Domain Naming System

Ted Cruz is involved.

Erik Shilling September 28, 2016

Mapping the Hidden Structures of New York City's Internet Networks

The internet is woven everywhere in city design; you just have to look closely.

Lauren Young September 8, 2016