carcino.gen.nz is an independent New Zealand publication about practical technology and internet culture. We write explainers for the questions people search for again and again: which broadband connection suits a household, what to do after a scam text, what the Consumer Guarantees Act means for a failed laptop, why a build or a browser behaves the way it does.
What we cover
- Broadband & Mobile: Fibre, wireless, satellite and mobile plans explained for New Zealand homes, without the sales copy.
- Security: Scam texts, phishing, account take-overs and the settings that stop them, with NZ reporting contacts.
- Consumer: Your rights when electronics fail, what gadgets cost to run, and where old devices should go.
- Dev Notes: Practical notes for developers and sysadmins: build errors, browsers, Linux and Windows, plus the domain's original tech notes.
- Internet Culture: How images travel, how the web remembers, and the carcino.gen.nz image archive that made the domain famous.
How explainers are written
Each explainer starts from primary sources: regulators, government agencies, standards bodies and vendor documentation. Sources are listed under the story. Prices, speeds and rules change; when they do, we update the page rather than publish a new one.
The domain
carcino.gen.nz first went online in 2001 as a personal website with technical notes and a well-known collection of funny pictures. The current publication is independent and is not connected with the site's former owner. Pages from the earlier site are kept in the archive.
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