The internet, notable for remembering just about everything, seems to have forgotten that particular piece of its own history. In some ways, it’s fitting that so few traces are left. The totality of ...

This year the Internet Archive turns 25. It’s best known for its pioneering role in archiving the internet through the Wayback Machine, which allows users to see how websites looked in the past.

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 ...

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 ...

The Supreme Court on Friday overturned its landmark 1973 ruling safeguarding abortion. Privacy advocates warn that phone and computer data could be used as evidence ...

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 ...

What’s online doesn’t necessarily last forever. Content on the Internet is revised and deleted all the time. Hyperlinks “rot,” and with them goes history, lost in space. With that in mind, Brewster ...

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 ...

In an effort to justify its aggressive new regulation of the Internet, the Federal Communications Commission is rewriting history. Intrusive oversight of the digital economy is actually good for ...

There was a vote against requiring warrants, but it was to maintain the status quo, not create a new access requirement. This authority is nothing new. It’s been allowed for 20 years in foreign ...