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Is the Internet melting our brains? Is the Internet melting our brains?

No! The author of "A Better Pencil" explains why such hysterical hand-wringing is as old as communication itself
By Vincent Rossmeier Sep 19, 2009

  • He e-mailed us to say, "I'm dating both of you"

    I thought I liked this guy, but his message to me and the other woman he's dating seemed pretty tacky.
    By Cary Tennis June 16, 2009

  • You don't have mail

    In the tech-challenged White House, the prez's BlackBerry-savvy aides feel like they've stumbled into the Carter administration.
    By Mike Madden January 27, 2009

  • My boss forwards fluffy kitten e-mails!

    Should someone inform the boss that these chain letters are bogus and scary? Should I send a link to Snopes.com?
    By Cary Tennis November 13, 2007

  • Empty thine in-box

    A spate of e-mail etiquette guides and productivity manuals commands us to clear out our e-mail. Don't we all have better things to do?
    By Scott Rosenberg July 13, 2007

  • My husband read my journal

    There were some pretty unflattering things in there, written before we were married.
    By Cary Tennis May 3, 2007

  • I tried to get rich on stock spam

    There really is a way to make money off those annoying, relentless e-mails about "hot stocks."
    By Alex Koppelman February 1, 2007

  • You've got good mail

    Businesses are fuming over AOL's plan to charge for sending e-mail to its users. But if it cuts spam and guarantees delivery, what's the problem?
    By Farhad Manjoo March 2, 2006

  • Too much of a good thing

    Forget spam -- our real conundrum is the overload of legitimate e-mail. But help is coming.
    By Farhad Manjoo July 16, 2004

  • Don't be afraid of the big bad Gmail

    Privacy advocates are frothing about Google's plan to scan e-mail for advertising purposes. A report from an early tester of the service says their concerns are overblown.
    By Mathew Honan April 26, 2004

  • E-mail to Australia

    From dull longing to document to electrical pulse ...
    By Jim Fisher March 2, 2004

  • E-mail is broken

    Four Internet pioneers discuss the sorry state of online communication today. The consensus: It's a real mess.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski October 2, 2003

  • Spam vs. spam

    The only way to stem the flood of unwanted e-mail may be to harness a million eyeballs and an army of open-source hackers.
    By Andrew Leonard June 24, 2002

  • The art of office e-mail war

    They don't call it a "killer app" for nothing. E-mail is corporate culture's favorite new weapon.
    By David Miller May 9, 2002

  • Animals online

    Birds do it, polar bears do it -- and with the help of satellite transmitters, they send e-mail too.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski August 27, 2001

  • A spam cop goes AWOL

    The ORBS blacklist, a controversial tool for stopping unsolicited e-mail, is suddenly inaccessible.
    By Damien Cave June 8, 2001

  • Therapy by e-mail

    All that hate mail was getting us down. So we sent a note to Usofyne.com and got back a healthy dose of ass-kissing.
    May 18, 2001

  • Sex, e-mail and Modem Media

    Another day, another inadvertent corporate e-mail spreading rage and embarrassment.
    By Janelle Brown April 7, 2001

  • You've got kinky, salacious, virus-bearing mail, you sick puke!

    The most recent Internet-borne computer disease appeals to the weakness in our flesh.
    By Douglas Cruickshank March 7, 2001

  • All I want for Christmas is ... an e-mail program that works

    Here's a real-world year-end wish list for people who actually use computers.
    By Scott Rosenberg December 20, 2000

  • She's got mail

    In Jane Hamilton's new novel, "Disobedience," a teenager reads his mother's e-mail and discovers she's having an affair.
    Read by Robert Sean Leonard October 16, 2000
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