The all-encompassing Internet is being demoted. — -- Internet and Web are enjoying one final day as proper nouns before they're downgraded in written form to the more generic "internet" and "web.

Your internet service provider (ISP) brings the internet into your home through a modem. A router then converts that signal ...

The web, or “world wide web” as we used to say, turns 27 years old on December 20. On that date, nearly three decades ago, British engineer and scientist Tim Berners-Lee launched the world’s first ...

Browsing the Web with Internet Explorer can frustrate you as you wait what seems like ages for a Web page to load, only to have it result in a display error or a ...

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 ...

Websites today come with a whole host of bells and whistles, from garish animations to autoplay video. If you hate those features, you’re right to: not only are they annoying – they are also bad for ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Sites like these continue to exist in their own tiny corner of the web, long after their moment of viral fame as ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Internet is a busy place. Every second, approximately 6,000 tweets are tweeted; more than ...