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The Great cPanel Revolt of 2019
Deep Dives Jun 4, 2026

The Great cPanel Revolt of 2019

For two decades cPanel ran a huge share of the web from behind the scenes, taken for granted like electricity. Then its new owners changed the pricing, and the industry discovered how much it depended on it.

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The Most Expensive Typo in History
Deep Dives Jun 1, 2026

The Most Expensive Typo in History

In 2017 one mistyped command at Amazon took a huge slice of the internet offline for four hours, and the status page meant to report it was down too, because it ran on the very service that had failed.

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#cloud #AWS #resilience #outages
The Great Domain Gold Rush of the 1990s
Deep Dives May 26, 2026

The Great Domain Gold Rush of the 1990s

For a few wild years a handful of letters and a dot could be worth more than a house, and the companies whose names were on the line mostly slept through the start of it. The 1990s domain name gold rush.

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#domain investing #domain names #internet history #dot com
The BBS Era: The Internet Before the Internet
Deep Dives May 22, 2026

The BBS Era: The Internet Before the Internet

Before the web, getting online meant dialling a phone number that rang a single computer in a stranger spare bedroom. The strange, intimate, hobbyist world of bulletin board systems, and how it quietly invented online community.

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#forums #bbs #internet history #retro computing
The Lost Furniture of the 90s Web
Deep Dives May 20, 2026

The Lost Furniture of the 90s Web

Tiled backgrounds, the blink tag, a cartoon workman digging next to coming soon, and a counter announcing you were visitor 206. Almost all of it is gone. A fond tour of the clutter of the amateur web.

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#internet history #web design #nostalgia #retro web
The Cuckoo's Egg: A 75-Cent Error That Caught KGB Hackers
Deep Dives May 18, 2026

The Cuckoo's Egg: A 75-Cent Error That Caught KGB Hackers

In 1986 an astronomer was told to find out why the lab accounts were out by seventy-five cents. The trivial chore unravelled into one of the first cases of international cyber-espionage, with a hacker selling secrets to the KGB.

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#security #internet history #espionage #hacking