The year 1995: Flash art, dial-up, and the first days of The Atlantic online ...

In 2020, OpenAI introduced GPT-3, a large language model used to produce a variety of computer codes and other language tasks. Two years later, the company produced its Artificial Intelligence (AI) ...

Kevin Driscoll’s new book The Modem World offers a picture of an early Internet defined by community, experimentation, and lack of privacy. (Fotoreport Quelle AG / AP Images) By signing up, you ...

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 ...

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.

If the sound of a modem connecting was your soundtrack to the ’90s, brace yourself because AOL dial-up is officially ending. In an announcement via its website, AOL said after over 30 years, it plans ...

Ever dream of floating back in time to the good old days of the Internet, when Amazon.com was just a tiny little online bookstore and WebCrawler was the best search engine around? Well, if you are ...

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

In 1996, when the Communications Decency Act—the first major law intended to regulate the internet—went on trial before a federal court months after it was passed, lawyers called on an AIDS activist ...

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 ...

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

Brian Walshe’s murder trial will continue Tuesday at Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, Massachusetts, with more testimony ...