Some people look to wipe their web history as soon as possible. (Can't have anyone stumble across those adult websites you visited!) But what if you're the opposite? What if you're looking to hold ...

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 ...

When Yahoo! switched off the servers for GeoCities, the Web posting service, on Oct. 27, some 7 million of the Internet’s first websites went dark forever. The bulk of these were people’s personal ...

Vice President Al Gore and President Bill Clinton promote the second national NetDay, designed to help connect every classroom and library in the U.S. to the internet by the year 2000, in the White ...

The long-promised digital apocalypse has finally arrived, and it was heralded by a blog post. Published on July 18, the post's headline sounded pretty arcane. "Google URL Shortener links will no ...

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 ...

Claim: 37 senators "voted for federal agencies to have access to your internet history without obtaining a warrant." A viral Facebook post says Americans missed a big moment in privacy rights. Some ...

From the world's first livestream, to llamas on the loose, to the colors of a dress that nobody could agree on, here are the most memorable moments since the inception of the Internet. We can't talk ...

A group of researchers has published a blog post at the International Monetary Fund's website in which they call for a significant shift in how credit scores are assessed. Instead of being based on ...