Hackers have long been an integral part of the Internet culture since the Usenet era, but the recent waves of cyberattacks in the wake of Anonymous hacktivism have brought on a renewed interest in the shadowy subculture.

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Help us investigate online parodies of the March Madness basketball tournament by contributing to our discussion in the meme research forum!

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This derogatory term is often applied to nerdy men who also do not have a good handle on hygiene, like the Butthurt Dweller, but where did the term come from?

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Have you seen these alternate song lyric posts on Tumblr the past several weeks? We could use some help figuring out the origin and if there is a name for the practice. Help us crack the case in the meme research forum!

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Last weekend at the a Python programmers conference, SendGrid employee Adria Richards tweeted about a group of devs who were joking about "big dongles" behind her during a session. Though staff took care of the situation, Twitter users discussed the events on Twitter, leading to SendGrid publicly firing Richards via Facebook today.

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