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 ...

Internet historian Mindy Seu at her apartment before premiering her performance "A Sexual History of the Internet" at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. (Carlin Stiehl / For The Times) The technologist ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The technologist and professor Mindy Seu was having drinks when her friend casually referred to the phone as a sex ...

Kevin Driscoll’s new book The Modem World offers a picture of an early Internet defined by community, experimentation, and lack of privacy. Where should a history of the Internet begin? If you asked ...