The History of the Internet in Byte-Sized Chunks

The internet is everywhere. But how did it start? How has it changed? And what will it look like in the future?

No development in human history has changed the world as radically, or as quickly, as the advent of the internet. There’s almost no aspect of 21st-century life that it hasn’t shaped or fundamentally altered, for better or for worse. But the history of the internet is longer than you might think. Its foundations stretch as far back as the 1960s, decades before it would become an acc...