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Christa Pike, the only woman on death row in Tennessee, is the subject of renewed discussion around her execution. Pike was sentenced to death in 1996 for the 1995 murder of fellow Job Corps student Colleen Slemmer in Knoxville, making her the youngest woman in the US sentenced to death at the time. Discussion centres on her case, appeals and the prospect of her execution being carried out.
- 256k.rip recreates the 1996 dial-up internet experience●56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience
A website called 56k.rip offers users a recreation of what browsing the internet was like in 1996, the era of dial-up modems and 56k connections. It is drawing attention as nostalgia for the early web, with readers sharing memories of slow connections, modem sounds and the simpler internet of the mid-1990s.