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Hello, this is TheTechBoy with a special article.                Mozilla announced that Pocket, the web aggregator, is shutting down. This is devastating. Pocket wasn’t just a tool to save articles for later; it curated stories tailored to your interests—news, science, tech, lifestyle—all in one app. Unlike newsfeed apps like CNN, THM, or The Hill, which pull from limited sources, or apps like Citizen, Samsung News, or SmartNews, which aggregate from multiple outlets, Pocket offered a unique blend of diverse, high-quality content.         This is heartbreaking. Pocket was one of my favorite apps, and its loss leaves us with fewer options beyond scrolling social media or shopping on our phones. Reading, especially long-form content, is good for you, but how can you read if you can’t find the content? Pocket recommended articles I wouldn’t have searched for but loved reading. No other aggregator does this. The web is flooded with...

      There’s a problem with the internet today. All the good sites are gone, replaced by social media, mindless drivel, and low-effort commenters. Finding real information is a struggle—want a decent hacking tutorial? Good luck. We were told hacking was "so easy a twelve-year-old could do it." We were promised that computers would revolutionize networking, communication, and productivity. Instead, we got Snapchat scams, no offline encyclopedias, information locked behind paywalls, and innovation that’s completely stalled. Want to know how to make a simple radio toy from 2005? Too bad. Want an entire encyclopedia on your phone, like the old CD-ROM days? Too bad. Want a dedicated community that actually focuses on its interests instead of being distracted by outside nonsense? Too bad. (For now, NotTheBoy.com is still gaining subscribers.) Want to do what you could on Windows XP, Vista, or 7 on Windows 11? Better pay for Pro. Computers have become glorified web app consu...

Hello, this is TheTechBoy with a special article. When doing internet research, you may want to see what people were saying in the past. This can help you find news articles in the past or information that would be harder to find in today's SEO-optimized culture. This is how you do it. 1. Open Google.com. On the top right, there will be a bar that says "Tools"; touch it. On mobile, you will have to enable desktop mode to get the full use of this feature. 2. After tapping it, on the top left, there will be a bar that says "Time." Click that. 3. Select "Custom range" and type in the date or year you want the search to start and end. This will only show articles published in that time. You may have to scroll down a bit, though, because sometimes publishers assign dates to articles for SEO (searching "iPhone" in 2004 will sometimes show ads for the 2024 iPhone 16). God bless and Tech Talk To You Later!!

             Computers are dead and the web is dying with it. In the 90s, computers were used mostly offline, but with the release of Internet Explorer, applications transitioned towards the web. In the early 2000s, websites were growing. People would surf the web for fun, to get content, and there were even dedicated portals from Yahoo and AOL.        Computers were still used to access the internet, computer programs were still essential for internet access while phones were still gaining features. People used the internet for fun; websites were still being built, flash animation was a thing, and new forms of media were exploding.       Podcasts, blogs, internet games all exploded in popularity. Magazines transitioned to the web and news went online. Life was fun... but then people stopped creating and just started posting links and memes on social media. The portals died, and now the top 50 websites, excluding illi...