Today, we published our 100th story since launching five months ago. To celebrate this milestone, we’re bringing back all our greatest hits, along with a few interesting Rest of World facts.
Here’s every Rest of World story so far, in chronological order:
- The last pager user [Japan]
- How a robotics engineer accidentally upended child labor practices in the Gulf [Qatar]
- Japan’s new digital hereafter [Japan]
- How a startup turned to the gods to reach India’s rural women [India]
- Here’s what it takes to order KFC in Gaza [State of Palestine]
- Burning threads [Hong Kong]
- How the most prized degree in India became the most worthless [India]
- Meet the rising stars of India’s video apps [India]
- Misinformation at the pulpit [South Africa]
- “What do I do with a credit card in a country like Iraq?” [Iraq]
- Behind the wall [China]
- تحليل قَطْع الإنترنت [Sudan]
- Meet the influencers [Global]
- Anatomy of an internet shutdown [Sudan]
- The trouble with scale [Myanmar]
- One country, two internets [India]
- How to solve one billion complaints [Global]
- 디지털 세대가 종현을 애도하는 방식 [South Korea]
- How K-pop fans mobilized globally to change Twitter’s policy [South Korea]
- This lending app publicly shames you when you’re late on loan payment [Kenya]
- Can a former model predict your future? A million Turkish users say yes [Turkey]
- What the doctor ordered [Vietnam]
- Hong Kong’s COVID-19 neighborhood watch [Hong Kong]
- In 500 feet, you will reach your demonstration [Russia]
- Platform & dysfunction [Brazil]
- Build the app you want to see in the world [Mexico]
- The doctor will mislead you now [India]
- The Philippines’ underground world of abortion drug-sellers [Philippines]
- Pakistan’s police have sent you a friend request [Pakistan]
- Living in unorthodox times [Mexico]
- Your dream wedding…on the internet [India]
- All the president’s trolls [Ecuador]
- Trolls hechos en casa: los mercenarios digitales de Ecuador [Ecuador]
- The bumblebee effect [Estonia]
- A league of their own [Taiwan]
- How Twitter came to love my bot [Nigeria]
- Eyes in the sky [India]
- The Disneyland of social media [Philippines]
- Shame as it ever was [Nepal]
- प्राचीन मेला, आधुनिक तकनीक [India]
- Africa’s phone phenom: Your guide to Transsion [China]
- True crime and false idols [Brazil]
- Quando seu ídolo é um assassino [Brazil]
- Justice, one screenshot at a time [India]
- What good are millions of apps if (almost) nobody can use them? [India]
- Codified sexism [South Korea]
- The revolutionary chipmaker: Your guide to TSMC [Taiwan]
- Witty Captions, $5 [India]
- (Online) open house [United Arab Emirates]
- It takes a village [Kenya]
- How Singapore is trying to shut down the last free space for dissent [Singapore]
- Coding for transparency [Brazil]
- Tune in, drop out [South Korea]
- We asked people if they’ve blocked their family online. Here’s what they said. [Global]
- How Mukesh Ambani won India’s mobile data price war [India]
- Fighting homophobia, one message at a time [Nigeria]
- Dissent and creativity in Hong Kong [Hong Kong]
- Meet the man trying to automate hospitals [Thailand]
- Want to buy a parrot? Please login via Facebook. [Bangladesh]
- “The despair and darkness of people will get to you” [India]
- Your money’s no good here [Brazil]
- Building for yourself [Myanmar]
- E-rranged marriages [Global]
- “تطبيقات المواعدة الإسلامية”: إعادة تخطيط للزواج دون الخروج على التقاليد؟ [Egypt]
- Notes from China’s unemployed [China]
- Gone phishing [South Africa]
- China’s subtitle army [China]
- For domestic workers, apps provide solace — but not justice [Philippines]
- Weak internet, strong connection [Venezuela]
- (Not so) free encyclopedia [Egypt]
- The world’s protest app of choice [Mexico]
- Delivery wars [Turkey]
- From social media darling to America’s most wanted: Your guide to TikTok [China]
- Can you hug a robot? [Armenia]
- The man who wants to “democratize” AI [Nepal]
- You spy, we chat [Nepal]
- Beijing’s shadow falls across Hong Kong [China]
- Venezuela’s satellite blackout [Venezuela]
- She’s got game [Pakistan]
- Like numbers? We got you. [Global]
- Gods in the machine [India]
- The revolution will be telegrammed [Belarus]
- WhatsApp school is now in session [Lebanon]
- On Zoom, Y Combinator’s foreign startups have a leg up [India]
- When worlds collide [Peru]
- Silk Road is dead. Long live the Silk Road. [Ukraine]
- Meet the influencers [Global]
- In China, therapy is going mobile [China]
- Digital banking, now halal [Indonesia]
- How Ant Group built a $200 billion financial empire [China]
- Tracking in the name of Covid-19 [Colombia]
- Death decreed over Zoom [Nigeria]
- Opening dossiers — and old wounds [Ukraine]
- The slang heard ’round the world [Global]
- Designed in Minecraft, built IRL [State of Palestine]
- The man behind Latin America’s “anti-bank” [Brazil]
- How the Iranian diaspora is using old-school tech to fight internet shutdown at home [Iran]
- Channeling grief into innovation [Brazil]
- Audrey Tang on her “conservative-anarchist” vision for Taiwan [Taiwan]
- How healthcare workers, and their phones, coped with a pandemic [Global]
That’s a wrap! Stay tuned for the next 100 stories and beyond. If you have suggestions for what we should cover, you can reach out at hello@restofworld.org. Thanks for reading.