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.

The web connects, constantly. This means that the internet is always on, apart from when it’s off. To be clear, the internet never actually “goes off” as such because the cloud service provider ...

African Voices is a weekly show that highlights Africa’s most engaging personalities, exploring the lives and passions of people who rarely open themselves up to the camera. Follow the team on Twitter ...

“Was the internet really this bad?” I wondered to myself as I read the September 1995 issue of The Atlantic. I was reading the issue in digital form, displayed on Netscape Navigator 3 on a mid-’90s ...

If you think that your internet is playing up because you can't load your favorite website, or even a multiplayer game, don't worry, it likely isn't your home internet that is playing up; it's ...

Just over 30 years ago, the World Wide Web announced that it was for everybody. On April 30, 1993, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) put the web into the public domain—a decision ...

SAN FRANCISCO — If you've ever clicked on a hyperlink that's taken you to something called the Wayback Machine to view an old web page, you've been introduced to the Internet Archive. The nonprofit, ...

British computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee is in the news at the moment, setting out a new “Contract for the Web” that web companies, governments and the likes of you and I should abide by to ...

In case you didn’t hear — on October 22, 2025, the Internet Archive, who host the Wayback Machine at archive.org, celebrated a milestone: one trillion web pages archived, for posterity. Founded in ...

In internet history, credit for the initial concept that developed into the World Wide Web is typically given to Leonard Kleinrock. In 1961, he wrote about ARPANET, the predecessor of the internet, in ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 ...

The Internet is an ever-expanding virtual universe. With each passing second, millions of users across the globe interact, share, and create content on an astonishing number of websites. But have you ...