People from my Internet generation, those who came online in the mid-1990s, have rose-tinted memories of early Web “shock sites”—sites with unassuming URLs containing horrible pictures of awful things ...

The rise of the web's gross-out culture began, ironically, with a government crackdown on Internet obscenity. In 1996 the US Congress passed the Communications Decency Act, which criminalized the use ...

The internet shock site Goatse.cx has become a promoter of the soaring cryptocurrency dogecoin. On the face of it, there doesn't seem to be much in the way of shared ideals between the cute, ...

Thieving iFrame sites now say: "I steal other people’s code because I’m a total hack." ...