This month marks the one year anniversary of The Verge. In online publishing, you tend to spend most of your time moving forward, and we’re no different. For the entire month of November, however, we’ll be taking a look at some of our favorite work from the past year, to celebrate, just a bit. One of the areas we’re most proud of is in our long form features. We knew from the earliest planning days of The Verge that we wanted to invest the time, money, blood, sweat, and love that is required to publish longform content on the web. We’ve stretched ourselves to think differently about the kind of articles which can and should appear here, and we’ve worked hard to make sure that the photography, text, graphics, layout, and (of course) our videos all work together to bring you an experience that is truly unique on the web. May, June and July were busy months for us.
These are some of our favorite feature stories from the first year that The Verge was alive. Enjoy.
Check out Part One here, Part Two here and Part Three here.
Cyborg America: inside the strange new world of basement body hackers
August 8, 2012
A new kind of hacking
'Avatar' who? 4DX movies will shake you, spray you, and fog you into never coming back
August 15, 2012
Trent Wolbe introduces America to the 4D movie experience
Def Con XX: twenty years of hacker evolution
August 17, 2012
Jesse Hicks hits Las Vegas for a hacker convention
Neal Stephenson Interview
August 21, 2012
Noah Davis talks with the author of Snow Crash
Noir to near-future: 'Looper' director Rian Johnson talks sci-fi, Twitter, and the fate of film
August 30, 2012
Bryan Bishop interviews the director of one of the year's breakout film hits
64 to 30: Commodore's game-changing computer enters its fourth decade
August 31, 2012
The long history of an iconic computer
Real steel: the broken robot necks and baby steps of RoboCup 2012
September 7, 2012
Face-planting towards the goal, the world's best soccer robots battle it out in Mexico City
Everything's amazing, nothing's perfect: exploring the limits of consumer technology
September 10, 2012
Why can't we have the internet everywhere?
I want my DNC: three days of hashtags and pseudo-events
September 11, 2012
Watching the DNC media "event"
The iPhone 5 forecast: a predictable 73 degrees and sunny
September 13, 2012
Is the iPhone getting a little... boring?
The Complete Idiot’s Guide To Appreciating Carly Rae Jepsen For Dummies Maybe
September 19, 2012
How to learn to love the girl who brought us "Call Me Maybe"
Do you believe in Magic… the Gathering?
September 20, 2012
For three days, the world's best 'Magic' players battle it out in Seattle, and we sent Noah to check it out.
Terrorism as art: Mark Pauline's dangerous machines
October 9, 2012
Robots, rebellion, and the post-apocalyptic performance art of Survival Research Labs
Why can't you vote online?
October 11, 2012
Making internet voting secure is a big challenge, but American elections have bigger demons
K-Pop takes America: how South Korea's music machine is conquering the world
October 18, 2012
The internet brought K-Pop to the US, but can it go mainstream?
Making a game, traveling the world: the story of 'Incredipede'
October 22, 2012
Real-life adventure leads to an adventurous game
'Why won't you die?!' The art of the jump scare
October 31, 2012
From 'Psycho' to 'Paranormal Activity,' the magic and craft behind the classic horror technique
Chasing ghosts: the weird science of tracking the dead
October 31, 2012
Real live ghost hunters
Losing it at the movies with Film Crit Hulk
November 8, 2012
The big green guy on commenters, the pain of 48fps, and the modern comic book movie
Into the vault: the operation to rescue Manhattan's drowned internet
November 17, 2012
Hurricane Sandy's storm surge flooded Verizon's downtown office, rendering miles of copper wiring useless
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