Why the internet kept breaking and taking down your favorite sites in 2025

Altogether, Cloudflare reported in its 2025 fourth quarter analysis that it observed more than 180 internet disruptions worldwide over the course of 2025, ranging from short, localized incidents to ...
PC World

Windows 11: How to set up a local network

There are various ways to work together in a network based on Windows 11. The simplest is to set up a shared workgroup, a kind of team of computers with equal rights. The workgroup in Windows 11 ...
Interesting Engineering

Robert E. Kahn

Robert E. “Bob” Khan is an American electrical engineer who provided the nuts and bolts know-how to the early creation of the Internet through his work on the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and ...
PC Gamer

The internet as we know it emerged out of the Protocol Wars, which is as nerdy as it sounds but also somehow involved the Pentagon

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Add us as a preferred source on Google I often take the internet for granted. Over the years it's ...
Local News 8

This Date with 8: October 29, 1969 — ARPANET Starts with a Typo

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) — Today is October 29. On this day in 1969, around 10:30 p.m., the first message was sent over ARPANET, the precursor to the internet. UCLA Professor of Computer Science ...
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A Nostalgic Ride Through The Internet’s Early Days

Welcome, fellow netizens, to a nostalgic voyage back to the dawn of the internet era! Picture a world where the term ‘surfing’ had nothing to do with waves, and ‘online’ was a novel concept. This was ...
Everyday Health

What's the Difference Between In-Network and Out-of-Network?

If you have a health insurance plan, you’ve probably come across the terms “in-network” and “out-of-network.” Simply put, in-network means the doctors or hospitals you visit contract with your ...
Interesting Engineering

Protecting Your Digital Assets: Antivirus and Its Significance For Modern Devices

Cybersecurity is a vital issue in today’s digital world. Every day cyber-criminals come up with new ways to get their hands on the private data of individuals and organizations. They use novel ...
techxplore

How Britain got its first internet connection

British computer scientist and Internet Hall of Fame inductee Peter Kirstein died in January 2020 at the age of 86, after a nearly 50-year career at UCL. A few years before he died, he was ...
VentureBeat

Listen to your technology users — they have led to the most disruptive innovations in history

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More In 1971, Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), the ...
TechRepublic

Network Traffic Types (With Examples)

Discover the key types of network traffic and their role in optimizing performance plus real-world examples to see how they impact data flow. Identifying network traffic types is vital because it ...