Peter Kirstein had to overcome various hurdles to connect the UK to the internet, including intransigent governments, ...

The ‘hot potato heuristic’ is a really helpful way to illustrate what we today call ‘packet switching’, because it was created for this very reason by the technology’s inventor – Paul Baran, a Polish ...

In doing so, the company almost invented the internet. But after a few seemingly insurmountable struggles, it decided to end what was then the best hope of a world wide web. The story begins with ...

Morris says he released the worm to figure out how big the Internet was ... even though his eponymous worm created a huge hassle for a lot of people. Instead, he got 400 hours of community ...

A mockumentary short following 'Gary Internet,' the eccentric self-acclaimed 'inventor of the internet,' and his trouble re-connecting with the modern world.

Hundreds of LLM-powered AI agents spontaneously made friends, invented jobs, and spread religion. Autoencoders are letting us peer into the black box of artificial intelligence. They could help us ...

The serial internet entrepreneur, who co-founded Twitter and created Medium, was turning 50 and feeling detached from friends. Maybe a new start-up could fix that. Evan Williams’s new app ...