Blog platform Xanga had an “eProps” button that allowed readers who didn’t want to leave a comment to at least acknowledge that they appreciated a post.

If you can ‘like’ everything, do you value anything? A new history of the ‘like’ button raises questions about what it means to interact effortlessly with others ...

If You Can ‘Like’ Everything, Do You Value Anything? A new history of the “like” button raises questions about what it means to interact effortlessly with others.

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The digital like gesture came on the scene around 2000 when early web 2.0 pioneers - including Everything2, HotOrNot and Xanga - were building a variety of rudimentary feedback tools.

SAN FRANCISCO — The internet wouldn’t be the same without the Like button, the thumbs-up icon that Facebook and other online services turned into digital catnip.

Like it or not, the Like button has changed the world Though it was popularized by Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg initially dismissed the digital dopamine delivery system as drivel.

X and Facebook are governed by the policies of mercurial billionaires. Bluesky’s C.E.O., Jay Graber, says that she wants to give power back to the user.

The Cambridge Typewriter Company in Arlington is one of the last of its kind in the Boston area. WBZ-TV's Brandon Truitt reports.

The retrospective is a snapshot of the world of emo around 20 years ago, shaped by people’s recollections of their bedrooms, youth, gigs and gatherings.