The world’s largest communications network may be right under your feet, and no, we didn’t build it: it was created by fungi. Fungal filaments beneath the ground are similar to the fiber optic cables ...

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 ...

The internet is a global network of servers that moves and stores data using hardware, software, and protocols. Wi-Fi is a local wireless network that distributes the internet signal to devices in ...

The Internet, born as an experiment meant to connect teams of researchers, has grown into a planetary-scale infrastructure that has reshaped society. Over the course of six decades, it has advanced ...

The internet is bigger and more fragile than ever, thanks to larger attacks. Much of that growth is driven by bots and AI crawlers. Increasingly, we use smartphones and satellites to access the web.

Everything you stream and share is broken into network packets. Learn how this enables the seamless flow of data that powers the internet. Network packets are small units of data that are sent from ...

University College London provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. British computer scientist and Internet Hall of Fame inductee Peter Kirstein died in January 2020 at the age of ...