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 ...

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 ...

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

We heard a story that after the recent hurricane, a man noted that while the house was sweltering hot because the power was still out, his kids were more anxious for the internet to come back online.

It’s broadly accepted that there’s a close relationship between development and access to information. One of the first economists to make the link was Amartya Sen, who won the Nobel Prize in 1998 for ...

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 ...

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 ...