Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince tells Fast Company why he’s trying to create the internet’s next business model, how AI’s threat to media is merely the beginning, and why he’s still optimistic for the ...

The sole undersea cable connecting it to the rest of the world had been snapped by an underwater avalanche from the volcano.

Beginner-friendly guide explaining how the internet works: how websites load, what a server is, and how data travels online, ...

These are not “nice-to-haves”; they are prerequisites for distributed cognition, operating at machine speed. As Tatipamula and Cerf point out, the network can no longer simply host intelligence. It ...

Digital connections are now essential to important parts of our lives, such as our work and healthcare. Interrupting service ...

Carl Öhman is an assistant professor in political science at Uppsala University, Sweden and the author of The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care.

Just over 30 years ago, the World Wide Web announced that it was for everybody. On April 30, 1993, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) put the web into the public domain—a decision ...

Writing has existed since the 4th Century BC. However, its evolution beyond a basic counting method into a structured language was the preserve of religious institutions and the ruling elite. Books ...

The internet is such a slowpoke. In principle, it should operate at nearly the speed of light, which is more than 670 million miles per hour. Instead, internet data moves 37 to 100 times slower than ...

I've been using the Internet since the late 1970s. So I already knew it well in 1991, when ZDNet was getting its start on CompuServe and it looked nothing like the Internet you know, love, and use ...