Tech History

Columbus Never Argued About a Flat Earth — That Story Was Written by a Novelist

The image of Columbus bravely sailing west while superstitious scholars warned he'd fall off the edge of the world is one of the most vivid stories in American history education. It's also almost entirely fiction — and the man who invented it wasn't a historian. He was the author of 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.'

Mar 13, 2026

The Rise, Fall, and Stubborn Resurrection of Digg: The Site That Almost Broke the Internet

Before Reddit became the front page of the internet, Digg was the place where the web's most interesting content lived and died by the vote. Here's the wild story of how one of the internet's most influential platforms imploded, handed its crown to a competitor, and kept trying to come back.

Mar 12, 2026