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From the Walkman to the Talkboy, these '90s classics that didn't survive the transition to the 2000s.

A nostalgic chapter in early internet history ends this year.

For the past century, the quest to break the Beale Ciphers has attracted the military, computer scientists, and conspiracy theorists. All have failed.

The 6-second start-up anthem joins “My Heart Will Go On” and the ‘Hamilton’ soundtrack as “one of the defining sounds of history.”

Spring cleaning isn‘t just for your home. It‘s important to declutter your devices, too.

Life looks a lot different than it did in 1975, and that’s largely thanks to the digital revolution that took place 50 years ago.

Before she helped send the first astronauts to the moon, Katherine Johnson was a human “computer” working behind the scenes at NASA.

Buy a water bed—you might need to drink it.

Despite advice about strong passwords, we’re still using ‘qwerty123.’

A decade before fans started lining up outside Apple stores for the release of each new iPhone model, computer users were eager to get their hands on Windows 98.

A fleet of warships is still running on 8-inch floppy disk power.

Generation Alpha—the children of Millennials and the kid siblings of Generation Z—was born the same year the iPad was released.

TSA agents need a closer look at your computer. Here's why.

Apple's iconic logo is rumored to have been inspired by Eve's bite into the apple of knowledge, Newton's discovery of gravity, and Alan Turing's untimely end. Are any of these stories true?

If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you’ve used one of the many products that Steve Jobs so famously innovated.

Before ChatGPT, a novel computer program by an MIT professor offered a virtual therapy session.

Nuclear war. Prisons unraveling. And using toilet paper for money. People were freaked out about Y2K.

You shouldn’t have to accept cookies a million times a day. Here’s how to stop it.

Sorry, hopeless romantics: “Iloveyou” is one of the most basic—and least secure—passwords you could possibly choose.

You might think ‘The Princess Bride’ is the ultimate comfort movie. According to one computer program, you couldn’t be more wrong.

Amazon’s original name was actually ‘Cadabra.’ And that was far from the only moniker that Jeff Bezos considered.

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