The technologist and professor Mindy Seu was having drinks when her friend casually referred to the phone as a sex toy. Think about it, her friend, Melanie Hoff, explained: We send nudes or watch porn ...

Vice President Al Gore and President Bill Clinton promote the second national NetDay, designed to help connect every classroom and library in the U.S. to the internet by the year 2000, in the White ...

This year the Internet Archive turns 25. It’s best known for its pioneering role in archiving the internet through the Wayback Machine, which allows users to see how websites looked in the past.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, AOL's Instant Messenger introduced millions of people to the internet—and the idea that you were always online, even when you were "away." An Alternative History Of ...

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 ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Katherine Dee, also known as Default Friend, isn’t even her “day job name.” That begins with Katya, she said in an interview with CoinDesk at Consensus 2022 in Austin, Texas. Dee is ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The technologist and professor Mindy Seu was having drinks when her friend casually referred to the phone as a sex ...