In 1995, a familiar experience sat at the center of many people’s introduction to dial-up internet: the chance to create something for themselves. Along with the access to the World Wide Web, Telnet, ...

Video games have gone through a number of changes over the decades, but few things have impacted the industry as much as crowdfunding. Thanks to tools like Kickstarter, potential video game developers ...

When Adobe announced that it was planning an “end of life” for Flash yesterday, it shouldn’t have taken anyone by surprise. The web-defining software — once used for all kinds of browser audio and ...

At 11:35 p.m. on April 6, 2000, Tom Fulp and his motley crew of developers changed the landscape of the internet forever. The Portal, which allowed users to upload their own animations and content to ...

Rien K-T's love for writing and research has taken him from the bitter cold of northern Sweden to the bustling city of Philadelphia. His interest in games, coding, and community-building brought him ...

User-generated content portal and entertainment site Newgrounds is trending on Twitter for a heartwarming reason. The site is largely known for hosting flash games but many users have begun to share ...

Big ideas often start small. What we typically see are finished products. Whether we’re talking about epic movies, space travel or sandwiches, what we’re given is the final, fully realized version of ...

It’s difficult to explain growing up in a small town to those who haven’t lived it. The clichés so often embraced by movies—the narrow perspectives of citizens, the yearning of youth to escape white ...