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

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

(WJAR) — Day three of the Brian Walshe murder trial gets underway on Wednesday. The Cohasset man is accused of killing his ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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