Category: New Land

Rick Astley did not realize what would happen when he recorded “Never gonna give you up” in 1987. The song became famous for used in Rickrolling others…

Charlie Schmidt and his keyboard playing cat. Another milestone in the internet age.

Tumblr (stylized in its logo as tumblr.) is a microblogging platform and social networking website founded by David Karp and owned by Yahoo! Inc. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Users can follow other users’ blogs, as well as make their blogs private.^[4][5] Much of the website’s features are accessed from the “dashboard” interface, where the option to post content and posts of followed blogs appear.

______

The text is taken from the article “Tumblr” on Wikipedia. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.

She will never stop doing this. Go on, Leek Spin Girl!

Twitter (/ˈtwɪtər/) is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called “tweets”.

Registered users can read and post tweets, but unregistered users can only read them. Users access Twitter through the website interface, SMS, or mobile device app.^[10] Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco and has more than 25 offices around the world.^[11]

Twitter started with the first published tweet on March 21, 2006.

Now that you’re a master of Twitter, you can use it to follow all your favorite celebrities and tweet at your best friends! And also you can

____

Parts of this text are from the article “Twitter” on Wikipedia, authors see there. This text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.

Humunumunumnum humhumimihiumhum… sounds like the brother of Beaker from the Muppets. But it’s Chacarron Macarron.

This is an embedded YouTube video. This is how some parts of the internet work. And this is the description! No one ever reads these, so why even bother!?

On the other hand, I could make you curious by writing something like: WHAT I SAW HERE CHANGED MY LIFE!!!

Tricky, he?

Facebook is an online social networking service headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg with his Harvard College roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.^[8][9] The founders had initially limited the website’s membership to Harvard students, but later expanded it to colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities and later to high-school students.  Its name comes from a colloquialism for the directory given to it by American universities’ students.^[11]

After registering to use the site, users can create a user profile, add other users as “friends”, exchange messages, post status updates and photos, share videos and receive notifications when others update their profiles. Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics, and categorize their friends into lists such as “People From Work” or “Close Friends”.

_____

Parts of this text are taken from the article “Facebook” from Wikipedia. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.

DeviantArt (formerly stylized as deviantART from 2001 to 2014) is an online community. The site was first launched on August 7, 2000 by Scott Jarkoff, Matthew Stephens, Angelo Sotira and others. DeviantArt, Inc. is headquartered in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California, United States.^[2] Works are organized in a comprehensive category structure, including photography, digital art, traditional art, literature, Flash, filmmaking, skins for applications, operating system customization utilities and others, along with extensive downloadable resources such as tutorials and stock photography. Additional utilities include journals, polls, groups and portfolios. “Fella,” a small, devilesque robotic character, is the official DeviantArt mascot.^[3]

DeviantArt can be a confusing place, and it might be hard to understand, but after watching our state-of-the-art instructional video you’ll be able to wade through Sonic Recolors and Naruto OC Fanfictions like the best of ’em! Good luck, and happy browsing.

_____

Parts of this text are taken from the article “DeviantArt” on Wikipedia. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.