The first real internet connection happened 50 years ago—but those that sent the first messages on what would become the modern internet aren’t so pleased with their creation today. Fifty years ago ...

Scams are everywhere; they can be found in your email while scrolling or chatting on social media, as you browse the web when texting, and just about anywhere else on the internet. The bad news is ...

WASHINGTON - A new bill pending in the Senate would end a nearly 30-year-old provision of federal law that helped shape the modern internet. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 ...

The modern internet was never designed to be the single point of failure for daily life that it has quietly become. Yet experts now argue that a large, cascading outage is not a sci‑fi scenario but a ...

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act helped create the modern internet. Now the regulation is at the center of a high-stakes political battle that could reshape how we use social media, ...

The modern internet didn’t happen by accident. It took decades of work to turn what once was an obscure network used by a small number of academics into a global phenomenon reaching about half the ...

A red quarter of a circle with the words 'The Quarter Mark' beside it. A year-long series looking back on the most significant moments of the past 25 years, how they changed our world, and how they ...