internet history

  • Internet Pioneer Vint Cerf Tests Positive For Covid-19

    Internet Pioneer Vint Cerf Tests Positive For Covid-19

    Matt Novak

    Tech pioneer Vint Cerf, one of the co-creators of the modern internet, has tested positive for covid-19, according to a tweet Cerf sent out Monday morning. The 76-year-old tweeted out a clip from HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver about the U.S. response to the global pandemic.

  • Early Predictions Of The Internet Date Back To 19th Century Sci-Fi

    Early Predictions Of The Internet Date Back To 19th Century Sci-Fi

    Eleanor Tremeer

    Science fiction writers are professional future-dreamers, imagining worlds far beyond their own. With technology advancing at astronomical rates, real life feels more and more like sci-fi every day (for better or worse). So it’s fun to look back at those writers who, decades and even centuries ago, imagined what life would be like now—and some…