Six of the Most Beloved Early 2000s Websites You May Have Forgotten

While the foundations of the internet began in the 1960s, the launch of the World Wide Web in 1989 set off a wave of rapid, ...

It came from the internet: 13 movies that started life online

With Backrooms breaking containment, we examine films that started life as blogs, YouTube shorts, creepypasta, and other ...
Smithsonian Magazine

In the Early Days of Machine Learning, Massive Computers Said George Harrison Was a Woman. A.I. Has Come a Long Way

A Cornell professor designed a room-size network of sensors that represented a single neuron. He claimed it would grow wiser ...
SpaceNews

The internet was ‘too expensive’ too

Every new infrastructure platform can look uneconomic at first. Early systems are often bespoke, supply chains immature and scaling doesn’t yet exist. The result: cost structures can appear daunting, ...

Ukraine launches biggest attack on Moscow in a year

Ukraine unleashed its biggest attack on Moscow in a year, firing nearly 600 drones overnight in retaliation for strikes on Kyiv. Three people were killed after 586 drones were shot down over Russian ...
PC World

Take a nostalgic trip through the early internet with Wayback Machine

There’s something weirdly magical about the early internet with its clunky fan sites, pixelated GIFs, and blogs with neon text. And while most of it vanished years ago, the Wayback Machine lets you ...
The News Journal

‘Grandfather of the Internet’ led pioneering projects – from Delaware

David Farber, a former University of Delaware professor known as the "grandfather of the internet," died at nearly 92. Farber's work at UD in the late 1970s and 1980s was foundational to creating the ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Russia Puts First Internet Satellites Into Orbit as SpaceX Rival

Russia’s Bureau 1440 space company launched 16 broadband Internet satellites, marking an early operational step in a low-Earth orbit network that Russian officials have cast as a domestic version of ...
Newsweek

How Chuck Norris Became the Internet’s First Myth

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Chuck Norris’ death at 86 will be met with tributes that span ...
University of Delaware

In Memoriam: David J. Farber

David J. Farber, a former professor of computer science at the University of Delaware nicknamed the “grandfather of the internet,” died on Feb. 7 in Tokyo. He was 91. “He was a pioneering architect of ...
TheStreet.com

Ava Labs exec compares blockchain evolution to the early internet

Technology often follows the same pattern: a complex invention exists for years before it becomes useful to everyday people. The early internet worked the same way. Complex systems like TCP/IP stayed ...
Forbes

Meet The Innovative American Women Who Helped Build The Internet

A computer scientist from a family of them, Estrin worked with early internet pioneers on TCP/IP, the foundational internet protocol. She later cofounded Bridge Communications in 1981, which let early ...