Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, reflects on how his original vision for a free and open internet has been undermined by data exploitation and surveillance.

Your internet service provider (ISP) brings the internet into your home through a modem. A router then converts that signal into Wi-Fi, allowing phones, laptops, TVs and other devices to connect without cables. In short, the internet provides the connection, and Wi-Fi makes it accessible to your devices wirelessly.

In 1989, Sir Tim revolutionized the online world. Today, in the era of misinformation, addictive algorithms, and extractive monopolies, he thinks he can do it again.

Lee, the inventor the World Wide Web, criticized the state of the internet today for turning users into “consumable products” in a talk in Harvard Square on Wednesday evening about his recently released memoir.

Thirty years ago, the baby web was just starting to go mainstream, but you could already see a pixelated vision of the world to come. In 1994, the modern Internet (which was almost always capitalized back then, and sometimes called just “Internet”) was ...

Since the dawn of the internet, it has evolved at an astonishing rate. We are so used to the world wide web of today that just picturing the early days after its birth is almost like a fantasy. One thing that remains constant,

AOL has now removed advertisements for dial-up internet service from its website, bringing an end to the way all households accessed the World Wide Web in the 1990s and early 2000

AOL is set to shut down the dial-up internet service that once was the symbol of internet connectivity after over 40 years. A company webpage titled "Dial-up Internet to be discontinued" states that the service will stopped on Sept. 30. The company says on ...

Microsoft retired video calling service Skype just earlier this year — as well as Internet Explorer back in 2022. And in 2017, AOL discontinued its Instant Messenger — a chat platform that was once lauded as the biggest trend in online communication since email when it was founded in 1997, but later struggled to ward off rivals.

Last month, a company webpage titled "Dial-up Internet to be discontinued" stated that the service would be discontinued.

Comet, an AI-powered web browser built to take on Google Chrome, is now available free, the AI search company Perplexity said in a statement Thursday. The browser was previously limited to subscribers to Perplexity Max and Pro. Comet no longer requires a subscription.