The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions ponders whether life would be better in a post-online, analogue world The internet has turned fringe belief into mainstream ...
On a cold winter’s day in December 1995, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates shook the tech world with plans to embed internet connectivity into all of Microsoft’s major products, making headlines across ...
Thirty years ago today, Netscape Communications and Sun Microsystems issued a joint press release announcing JavaScript, an object scripting language designed for creating interactive web applications ...
Nearly three decades after the launch of Internet Explorer, or 27 years to be precise, Microsoft discontinued this classic browser to focus on Microsoft Edge. The company announced the end of Internet ...
This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2025) The World Wide Web is one of those rare innovations that truly reshaped the world. It ...
Many popular internet services experienced slowdowns and outages Tuesday morning, with the major web infrastructure company Cloudflare saying a bug led to broad problems on its network. Cloudflare, ...
Most of us were introduced to the internet through web browsers. Who remembers Netscape Navigator? Or the more recently departed Internet Explorer? For 30 or so years, they’ve been an essential ...
Samsung Internet is launching on PC for the first time as a beta program starting October 30. The desktop browser will offer continuity features between the Android and PC versions, making bookmarks, ...
Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing platform that powers much of the internet, went down for several hours Monday, making several major websites and apps inoperable. From banking services ...
Microsoft has updated the Internet Explorer (IE) mode in its Edge browser after receiving credible reports in August 2025 that unknown attackers were using the tool to gain unauthorized access to ...
Afghanistan is in the midst of a communications blackout, just weeks after Taliban authorities began severing fiber optic connections in multiple provinces, in what appears to be the Islamist regime's ...
Shopping for internet service can be complex, especially for large families. Here's how to find the right internet speed for your household. Kaylyn McKenna is a writer with extensive experience ...