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 the 1990s, tech companies used utopian language to sell the internet. The AI industry is taking a different approach.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, AOL's Instant Messenger introduced millions of people to the internet—and the idea that you were always online, even when you were "away." An Alternative History Of ...
The Internet History Initiative wants future historians to have a chance to understand how human progress and technical progress align APRICOT 2026 For almost 30 years, the PingER project at the USA’s ...
The internet is undoubtedly our most impactful modern invention. It has revolutionized the way we live, work, and communicate, making it a vital necessity worldwide. It's hard to imagine a world where ...