Zero degrees right now. Or, as they call it in Oymyakon, tropical:

Pictures are here. Why do they live there? I don't know. If every house had a FOR SALE sign, it might be the depressed property market. Another claimant for the "preposterously cold city" title is Verkhoyansk, which was in the news a few years ago: "In January 2012, the town was attacked by a pack of about 400 wolves. According to biologists, the attack was due to a mass migration caused by a shortage in the wolves' natural food sources, in particular blue hares."

It might be cold now, but at least when we say "the wolves are bad this year" we're talking about basketball.

Related: what's the difference between absolute zero and absolute hot? The BBC explains.

INTERNET POWER! The early days of the internet aren't well represented. Aside from the Wayback Machine, where can you find the early, i.e. ugly days? On VHS tapes telling people how to Internet. Andy Baio is doing good work here. Necessary work. FastCompany Design:

Here's part 1 of Internet Power! from 1995.

I haven't watched the entire thing yet, but I hope there's a kid with a spiky haircut who is learning how to be a Cyberpunk. There was such a word, you know. Billy Idol even made an album based on the idea, even though his persona didn't seem intelligent enough to make the distinction between the CPU and the monitor, let alone "hack" it to "gain access" to other computers. People were talking about these things before the web, before browsers. It's an odd period. On one hand, this was futuristic . . .

On the other hand, it wasn't futuristic at all. Everything looksd like a school brochure put together with Windows dingbats.

As you might expect, nostalgia for nostalgia's sake is kicking in:

The simplicity of 90s web design. True enough, in the sense that a musical composition limited to three notes is simple. Speaking of three notes:

That's one way of putting it, yes. So were GIFs of flaming skulls and rotating "under construction" banners. Or this guy.

No one who put those up ever finished the page.