This week I was asked a question for which I had tried and failed to provide a satisfactory answer 50 years ago. 

The convenience of a smart phone cannot be denied, and also undeniable is the inconvenience of losing one.

My friend Sally received an urgent message from her free email provider, Google Gmail, saying she needed to immediately change her password.

Internet users have a really hard time understanding URLs. Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is the protocol used to specify addresses on the internet. Typically a URL begins with “https://www” and includes a domain name such as “google.com” then can continue for dozens, hundreds, or thousands of characters more.

The good news is that the World Wide Web (www) has not gone away.

The toxic political climate now existing in 2021 has prompted some people to start investigating alternatives to “big tech” and its censorship.