Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Long before smart devices kept people connected around the clock, logging on was a conscious choice. A fully considered decision.

If you grew up on the early internet, you probably remember waiting for pages to load, trying to download music and getting like 57 viruses at the same time, restarting your computer when your screen ...

There are many things about internet usage today which people take for granted: fast browsers, widespread social media, sophisticated website designs, and much more. But it wasn’t always like that.

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. With the introduction of the Netscape browser in late 1994, ordinary ...

If you’re old enough to clearly remember the old internet, you probably have some amount of nostalgia for it, flaws and all. Sure, it was slow as hell, full of auto-playing music and garish gifs. It ...

Millennials and older folks have been reminiscing about the early internet days, before social media and ads took over everything. Specifically, one Redditor asked them to recall 1991 to 2009—the time ...

Before the modern Internet existed, there were still plenty of ways of connecting with other computer users “online”, although many of them might seem completely foreign to those of us in the modern ...

Nicole Nikolich’s forthcoming work, to be displayed in PHL’s Terminal E, features crochet pieces of early internet icons including MySpace Tom, error signs, the ...