Tech pioneer Vint Cerf, one of the co-creators of the modern internet, has tested positive for covid-19, according…
When YouTube first launched 15 years ago, a lot of people weren’t sure what to make of it. Anyone can upload a video…
Fifty years ago today, on October 29, 1969, the internet was born. It was a humble beginning—a single login from a…
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In the 1940s, as the Italian Jesuit priest Father Roberto Busa studied “the verbal system” of Thomas Aquinas, he wond…
Lawrence “Larry” Roberts, one of a small handful of people who can truly be called the grandparents of the internet,…
If you take a peek at the back pages of 1990s computer magazines, you’ll find plenty of ads for data recovery…
Back when a brand-new company called Google was getting its first trickle of angel investment from the likes of Jeff…
John Perry Barlow, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and author of the 1996 manifesto, “A Declaration…
The new “End of Ze World” video looks just like the original for exactly two seconds. A few moments later, the…
One of President Trump’s first actions after taking office was to institute a federal hiring freeze, leaving…
Whether you’re trying to remember the name of that guy from the thing, or just contrasting a score against Rotten…
In 1999, Davide Bowie sat down for a TV interview with BBC host Jeremy Paxman. Bowie explains that if he were a kid…
When Doom was released in 1993 it was an undeniable boon to the game modding community, and among the many fan…
Never say anything in an electronic message that you wouldn’t want appearing, and attributed to you, in tomorrow’s…
Whenever I write about the history of the internet, someone slips into the comments with a joke about Al Gore…
In 1973, Norway became the first nation outside the US to get online through DARPA’s packet-switched network, the…