How a Beeping Modem Turned Into Lightning-Fast Connection Everywhere? Once upon a time - and not even that long ago - using the internet meant blocking your entire phone line, listening to a series of ...

The United States Department of Defense created the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) in the late 1960s, which is when the internet first emerged. Thanks to ARPANET, research ...

What distinguishes toxic falsehoods from sustaining fictions? And which of the two flourishes in the wilds of the internet, where hoaxes thrive and doctored images abound? In “A History of Fake Things ...

Welcome to the final article in our three-part series on the history of the Internet. If you haven’t already, catch up with part one and part two. As a refresher, here’s the story so far: The ARPANET ...

From a series of tubes to the information superhighway. is an investigations editor and feature writer covering technology and the people who make, use, and are affected by it. Since joining The Verge ...

It’s broadly accepted that there’s a close relationship between development and access to information. One of the first economists to make the link was Amartya Sen, who won the Nobel Prize in 1998 for ...