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The History of the Internet: From Dial-Up to 5G

How a Beeping Modem Turned Into Lightning-Fast Connection Everywhere? Once upon a time - and not even that long ago - using the internet meant blocking your entire phone line, listening to a series of ...
Ars Technica

A history of the Internet, part 3: The rise of the user

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 ...
Yahoo

Taylor Lorenz told the history of the internet. What does she think about its future?

It was the rise of the late Heather Armstrong’s monetized mommy blog that made self-published writing a sustainable career, and Julia Allison’s personal brand that introduced the world to the model of ...
Ars Technica

A history of the Internet, part 2: The high-tech gold rush begins

Welcome to the second article in our three-part series on the history of the Internet. If you haven't already, read part one here. As a refresher, here's the story so far: The ARPANET was a project ...
American Enterprise Institute

Dial-Up Internet May Be History, but It Still Conditions Our Current Internet Experience

This week’s announcement that AOL will be discontinuing its dial-up internet access service on September 30 triggered a bout of nostalgia in me—an internet dinosaur who first dialed up to ARPANET in ...