The United States Department of Defense created the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) in the late 1960s, which is when the internet first emerged. Thanks to ARPANET, research ...

How a Beeping Modem Turned Into Lightning-Fast Connection Everywhere? Once upon a time - and not even that long ago - using the internet meant blocking your entire phone line, listening to a series of ...

From a series of tubes to the information superhighway. is an investigations editor and feature writer covering technology and the people who make, use, and are affected by it. Since joining The Verge ...

In a very real sense, the Internet, this marvelous worldwide digital communications network that you’re using right now, was created because one man was annoyed at having too many computer terminals ...

The curious minds at ColdFusion explore the surprising history of the internet’s firsts. This matters because understanding ...

Welcome to the final article in our three-part series on the history of the Internet. If you haven’t already, catch up with part one and part two. As a refresher, here’s the story so far: The ARPANET ...

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 innovation ...

If you thought the startling number of yearly data breaches would spur tech companies to improve security, then buckle up, because the trend is only getting worse. Almost every year, we see an ...

From a series of tubes to the information superhighway. From a series of tubes to the information superhighway. is an investigations editor and feature writer covering technology and the people who ...

We are currently immersed in all things digital and the genesis for much of our economy and how we interact today is tied to the Internet. History in this case only goes back about 30 years. To ...