Of all the broadsides launched by Allan Bloom in The Closing of the American Mind, perhaps none struck readers at the time as more outrageous than his critique of rock and roll. Bloom famously ...

This story is adapted from The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media, by Kevin Driscoll. For more than two decades, dial-up bulletin board systems, or BBSs, were a primary form of popular ...

An early Minitel terminal made in France and introduced in the early 1980s Science & Society Picture Library via Getty Images The internet has come a long way since the World Wide Web became publicly ...

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 terminals ...

The internet is a wonderful thing, isn’t it? Believe it or not, it’s been around in the form that we now take for granted since the mid-1980s, and more primitive versions existed for two decades ...

Among the many arguments for copyright and anti-counterfeiting law (ACTA) and piracy treaties, another debate has been slowly making its way to the surface that government will have to decide upon as ...

For many of us, for better or for worse, the internet is home. Our communities are here, because many of them could not exist any other way. Superfans, shitposters, amateur experts, wiki nerds, ...