Let's take a scroll (pun intended) through the fascinating evolution of the internet - from the age of dial-up to the blazing speed of 5G.

Well, apparently, all of Armenia’s Internet depends on a single fiber optic cable. A 75-year-old woman in Georgia (the country, not the US state) sliced it with a spade while hunting for copper ...

In the 1990s, tech companies used utopian language to sell the internet. The AI industry is taking a different approach.

Explore the fascinating history of the internet, from ARPANET, and the birth of the World Wide Web, to the rise of social media, cloud computing and Web3.

The invention of the internet is considered to be Jan. 1, 1983, but the vision started decades before.

The history of the internet is repeatedly reduced to the story of the singular Arpanet. But BBSs were just as important—if not more.

An Ars Technica history of the Internet, part 1 In our new 3-part series, we remember the people and ideas that made the Internet.

A history of the Internet, part 2: The high-tech gold rush begins The Web Era arrives, the browser wars flare, and a bubble bursts.

Slowly but surely, huge swaths of the internet are vanishing. But the artefacts of the early web are still out there, and ...

It’s broadly accepted that there’s a close relationship between development and access to information. Increasingly over the past two decades, the internet has been a major factor affecting ...

On April 30, 1993, the European research organization known as CERN released Tim Berners-Lee’s code for the World Wide Web into the public domain. The internet has many components but this ...

In “A History of Fake Things on the Internet,” Walter Scheirer says concerns about digital misinformation are overblown and alarmist.