Just about every modern browser can now sync your browsing history across devices, from laptop to mobile and back again.

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.

Being a parent in the digital age must be terrifying. Whereas once upon a time, kids had to go to mom and dad to ask life’s biggest and most important questions, youngsters nowadays have magical ...

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 ...

It has been quite some time since the invention of the Internet, previously known as the World Wide Web. With its roots back in the early 80s, the Internet has been with us for over three decades now.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. administers the House oath of office to Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., during a mock swearing in ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 3. Both are being ...

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 ...