In today’s times, the word “YouTube” and its logo are familiar to virtually every person over the age of two. The multibillion dollar platform boasts billions of users around the world and is the ...

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 ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. With the introduction of the Netscape browser in late 1994, ordinary ...

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 ...

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 ...