Over the past five years at io9, we've explored a lot of strange frontiers, and asked a lot of ridiculous questions. Some of our strangest discoveries have been the ones that hung around, as if we adopted a baby alien and it grew up eating out of our hands.

io9's slogan is "We Come From the Future." It's a reference to science fiction stories where people come from Earth's future to warn us about dark things to come, or possibly to harvest our bodies for some techno-authoritarian regime. Rarely do visitors from the future arrive with good tidings. But at io9, our writing…

On Friday night, io9 celebrated its golden fifth anniversary at the otherworldly Brooklyn bar The Way Station, where the bathroom looks like a TARDIS and creatures from every dimension can mingle without fear of creating a rift in the multiverse. How can we already be at our golden anniversary, when we've only been…

I can still remember my first internet argument. It was on Usenet, when I was 14 or 15, and it was over some finer point of Doctor Who lore, like how exactly the Chameleon Circuit was supposed to work. I posted an impassioned rant, and then watched in amazement as people started sending their responses. From Amsterdam, …

This month marks io9's golden fifth anniversary. On January 2, 2008, we launched this site with three full-time staff, a handful of freelancers, and a burning vision of what tomorrow would bring. Now, five years later, we're looking back at what we've accomplished — and hurtling forward on our continuing mission to…