This story is adapted from The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media, by Kevin Driscoll. For more than two decades, dial-up bulletin board systems, or BBSs, were a primary form of popular ...

Just blocks from the Presidio of San Francisco, the national park at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, stands a gleaming white building, its façade adorned with eight striking gothic columns. But ...

The number of Chinese websites is shrinking and posts are being removed and censored, stoking fears about what happens when history is erased. By Li Yuan Chinese people know their country’s internet ...