The ARPANET was a project started by the Defense Department’s Advanced Research Project Agency in 1969 to network different ...

(Yes, the electric car company Tesla is named for him). According to History.com, “the first practical schematics for the internet would not arrive until the early 1960s,” when Joseph Carl ...

Once upon a time - and not even that long ago - using the internet meant blocking your entire phone line, listening to a series of screeches and beeps, and waiting minutes (yes, minutes ...

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 ...

And which of the two flourishes in the wilds of the internet, where hoaxes thrive and doctored images abound? In “A History of Fake Things on the Internet,” computer scientist Walter J.

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they often shut down the internet. This was perhaps best demonstrated during the Arab Spring revolts in 2011, the most significant challenge to the region’s rulers in recent history. At the time ...

In a world where a single point of failure can throw our machines into chaos, everything from sharks to authoritarian governments to old ladies have brought the web to its knees. On Friday 19 July ...