Your internet service provider (ISP) brings the internet into your home through a modem. A router then converts that signal ...
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The 7 Phases of the Internet

Each phase of the Internet—from networks to people to things to agents to senses to ubiquity to the quantum world—has ...
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 ...
Changes starting to take place behind the scenes in mobile networks may eventually pay dividends to anyone with a smartphone, a connected refrigerator or an IT department. Carriers have done things ...
In a very real sense, the Internet, this marvelous worldwide digital communications network that you’re using right now, was created because one man was annoyed at having too many computer terminals ...
Cierra was an associate writer for CNET's broadband team, covering all things home internet. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington with a master's degree. Cierra is ...
A simple internet speed test can tell you a lot about your home's network and whether you're getting your money's worth. We'll show you how to run one and more.
A rare global interruption in the Starlink satellite Internet network knocked subscribers offline for more than two hours on Thursday, the longest widespread outage since SpaceX opened the service to ...
Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing platform that powers much of the internet, went down for several hours Monday, ...