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The Register ("El Reg" to its staff and readers) is a British technology news and opinion website. It was founded by John Lettice and Mike Magee in 1994 as a newsletter called "Chip Connection", initially as an email service. Mike Magee left The Register in 2001 to start The Inquirer.
The Register has run Simon Travaglia's BOFH stories since 2000. Comment pieces are included along with the news, such as "Bootnotes" and "Opinion". Letters and "Flames of the Week" are often run, and as well as carrying its own content, licensed articles from other sites are included to augment their coverage. The Register aspires to provide an objective viewpoint, and most subjective pieces are labelled as such. It does not aim to be popular with the powerful corporations – its tag line is: Biting the hand that feeds IT.
The Register frequently uses sarcasm and satire in its articles, in the manner of the British satirical magazine Private Eye, and often provides an iconoclastic stance e.g. referring to Google as the world's largest text-ad broker. Articles are listed on the home page with most recent at the top, three to a line, allowing easy access to breaking news. The Register occasionally runs articles satirizing selected people e.g., Captain Cyborg, aka Kevin Warwick.
The Register has run Simon Travaglia's BOFH stories since 2000. Comment pieces are included along with the news, such as "Bootnotes" and "Opinion". Letters and "Flames of the Week" are often run, and as well as carrying its own content, licensed articles from other sites are included to augment their coverage. The Register aspires to provide an objective viewpoint, and most subjective pieces are labelled as such. It does not aim to be popular with the powerful corporations – its tag line is: Biting the hand that feeds IT.
The Register frequently uses sarcasm and satire in its articles, in the manner of the British satirical magazine Private Eye, and often provides an iconoclastic stance e.g. referring to Google as the world's largest text-ad broker. Articles are listed on the home page with most recent at the top, three to a line, allowing easy access to breaking news. The Register occasionally runs articles satirizing selected people e.g., Captain Cyborg, aka Kevin Warwick.
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