Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Story updated Oct. 11 with additional expert comment regarding ...

This story is adapted from The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media, by Kevin Driscoll. For more than two decades, dial-up bulletin board systems, or BBSs, were a primary form of popular ...

Of all the broadsides launched by Allan Bloom in The Closing of the American Mind, perhaps none struck readers at the time as more outrageous than his critique of rock and roll. Bloom famously ...

An internet history on a browser can tell a lot about someone, including what unsavory sites they recently visited. So in response, Opera created Fake My History, which can automatically clean it up ...

The internet is undoubtedly our most impactful modern invention. It has revolutionized the way we live, work, and communicate, making it a vital necessity worldwide. It's hard to imagine a world where ...

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, AOL's Instant Messenger introduced millions of people to the internet—and the idea that you were always online, even when you were "away." An Alternative History Of ...