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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Welcome to the final article in our three-part series on the history of the Internet. If you haven’t already, catch up with part one and part two. As a refresher, here’s the story so far: The ARPANET ...

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 ...

Lorenzo De Carli does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

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

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

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 ...