From posting Instagram photo dumps at the end of the semester to checking Sidechat while procrastinating for finals, social media is a fact of life for virtually everyone at Columbia. The virtual ...

In 2002, social networking hit really its stride with the launch of Friendster. Friendster used a degree of separation concept similar to that of the now-defunct SixDegrees.com, refined it into a ...

The history of modern communications systems has been marked by flashes of startling insight. Claude E. Shannon, mathematician and engineer, launched one such revolution almost 60 years ago by laying ...

Before there was Facebook, there was the WELL, and USENET, and primitive email lists... Ars takes a in-depth look at the history of the Internet as a communications medium and a tool for group ...