‘Grandfather of the Internet’ led pioneering projects – from Delaware

Have you heard of David Farber? The former UD professor and researcher helped lead work foundational to today’s internet.

The bifurcation of the internet is coming

As AI agents outnumber humans, the internet splits into machine and human layers.
The Atlantic

A Piece of Internet History the Internet Almost Forgot

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 ...
Fast Company

The year the internet grew up

The internet wasn’t born whole—it came together from parts. Most know of ARPANET, the internet’s most famous precursor, but it was always limited strictly to government use. It was NSFNET that brought ...
The Conversation

How the internet became enshittified – and how we might be able to deshittify it

Remember when Twitter used to be good? I reckon it peaked somewhere around the first COVID lockdowns. In those days, there was a running gag on the site where everyone would refer to it as a ...