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Whenever you visit a site, you will see either “HTTP” or “HTTPS” right at the start of the URL in the address bar. They are both acronyms, and the first four letters stand for “hypertext transfer protocol.” They are there to let you know which protocol the site you’re visiting uses to transfer data over a […]

Over thirty years ago, back on February 1, 1993, Microsoft’s co-founder Bill Gates showed off a brand new product, the Wallet PC. He heralded it as a device that would make it unnecessary to carry around cash, cards, and photos.  “There’s no reason why you can’t just carry a single little PC about the size […]

In classic sci-fi movies like “Terminator” (1984) and “The Matrix” (1999), Artificial Intelligence (AI) gains sentience and dedicates its immense computer-brainpower to exterminating or enslaving mankind. In our reality, however, AI is what teachers warn students about not because it poses a threat to their personal safety (yet), but because relying on it too much […]

The internet has increased the amount of time people spend on the toilet more than any foodborne illness known to man. Even the excruciating minutes spent in the bathroom after a midnight Taco Bell run wreaks havoc on your colon are nothing compared to the time we normally spend doomscrolling on our porcelain thrones. Honestly, […]

Some people are stuck in the analog age in the midst of a digital world. My dad was one of those people. In fact, I’ll bet a lot of people’s dads were like that. Unless it had a carburetor or it could kill you by using it wrong, there was a good chance it was […]

Spam. A word synonymous with unsolicited messages and unwanted online interactions. It also refers to a brand of canned lunch meat, but since we are a digital marketing company, we are going to be focusing on the bad internet spam for this article (although we might cover the canned lunch meat later). Handling spam is […]

There was a time, not too long ago, when the words “You’ve Got Mail” were more iconic than any modern startup catchphrase. Before Google was a verb, before TikTok was melting the attention spans of millions, and before streaming meant anything other than a babbling brook, there was AOL. Yes, America Online, the crown jewel […]

www.zackthoughts.gov.www\zackthoughts:  Ah, WordPress. The humble little platform that could. Born in 2003 with the simple mission of giving the everyday internet user a way to blog their thoughts without needing to master the sacred art of HTML or strike a bargain with a web developer wizard. Back then, WordPress was like a digital diary; clean, […]

Google is one of the largest companies on the planet. As of writing this, their share price is in the triple digits, they have a market cap of around $2 trillion, and their parent company, Alphabet, has somewhere in the neighborhood of 180,000+ full-time employees. They have seemingly infinite resources, a near-total monopoly on search […]