The Friendster social networking site is founded during 2002. (In 2003 Google offers to purchase the company for $30 million. Friendster turns down the offer.) “The Nielsen/NetRatings firm estimated ...

If you step into the headquarters of the Internet Archive on a Friday after lunch, when it offers public tours, chances are you’ll be greeted by its founder and merriest cheerleader, Brewster Kahle.

Fraud on the Internet rose sharply in 2002, with the FBI reporting more than 48,000 complaints referred to prosecutors — triple the number of the year before. By far the most common complaint was ...

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(This article originally appeared in the Mercury News on May 24, 2002.) Netflix, the pioneering but unprofitable online DVD-rental company, saw its shares rise nearly 12 percent in the first day of ...

The Internet Archive has finally recovered from a devastating series of cyberattacks last month with all its main sites and services back up and running. Only a few ancillary features are still down, ...

The Internet Archive has brought its Wayback Machine back online “in a provisional, read-only manner” as it continues to recover from attacks that took the site down last week, founder Brewster Kahle ...

A federal appeals court sided with publishers in the copyright fight over whether the Internet Archive can lend out digitized books. A federal appeals court sided with publishers in the copyright ...

Update on 10/20/24 added to the bottom of this article. Internet Archive's "The Wayback Machine" has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication ...

Legendary mixtape platform DatPiff has uploaded the entirety of its over 366,420-project catalog to the internet archive. Last March, the service which calls itself “The Authority In Mixtapes” ...