No one quite knew how to talk about what the internet was, mixing metaphors about the information superhighway on which you ...

Every day, you click and tap on devices, most likely using the internet to answer questions you have, stay up to date with current events and stay connected with people in the world around you. The ...

This story is adapted from The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media, by Kevin Driscoll. For more than two decades, dial-up bulletin board systems, or BBSs, were a primary form of popular ...

Vice President Al Gore and President Bill Clinton promote the second national NetDay, designed to help connect every classroom and library in the U.S. to the internet by the year 2000, in the White ...

The United States Department of Defense created the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) in the late 1960s, which is when the internet first emerged. Thanks to ARPANET, research ...

Why do we today celebrate today–October 29–as the Internet’s 40’s birthday? Because on this day in 1969, what would later became known as the Internet was used for the very first time–and crashed.

This story is adapted from The Players Ball: A Genius, a Con Man, and the Secret History of the Internet’s Rise, by David Kushner. “Almighty God, Lord of all life, we praise You for the advancements ...

Dozens of searches carried out on Walshe's laptop sought information about dead bodies and dismemberment, crime scene cleanup ...

Long before Twitter threads, Reddit exposés, and viral TikToks, history was already full of scandals so explosive they ...

It has been more than 11 years since Ellen DeGeneres famously "crashed" Twitter (now X) by posting an instantly iconic, ...

A heartbreaker of a vote just went down in the U.S. Senate with disturbing implications for online privacy. On Wednesday, the Senate failed to pass an amendment to parts of the Patriot Act that would ...