The Internet Resources

You'd think that as the internet incubator, the U.S. would be the hub of most internet usage and…you used to be right. Now, according to The Washington Post, it's switching more to Europe. Typical.

A whole site dedicated to the people who made all of your internet productivity and procrastination possible.

As the saying goes, "you don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies," and Mark Zuckerberg couldn’t do either without using the internet.

Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan finally got some sleep in Seattle. Then they woke up and fell in love all over again through email. You won't see anything that screams the 90s and early internet nearly as loudly as this one.

Turns out the cloud isn’t as clean as you might think. This in-depth article from The New York Times reveals the environmental cost of all that instant (and constant) connection. Just don't try using that argument to get out of a research project.

The Onion offers an exciting glimpse at the internet’s future, wise beyond its time, as always.

Google software engineer Tess Winlock breaks down the basics of the physical system that lets us send stuff like cat videos over the internet. Just in time for Gmail Blue.

Enjoy the soothing sound of internet co-creator Vint Cerf’s voice as he and Spotify engineer Lynn Root explain how packets move around the web.

Fadel Adib, a Ph.D. candidate at MIT, transforms science fiction into science fact (which is one of our favorite things, TBH) in this TEDx talk about using Wi-Fi to see through walls, track vital signs, and do so much more.

Author Virginia Heffernan fell in love with the internet and told NPR a little bit about why. In a shocking turn of events, this time it isn't because the internet isolates us.

Author Andrew Keen debates whether the internet really makes everything as equal and wonderful as we think it does. It's a little bit upsetting, though, so you might want to have a cat video at the ready.

Back before Wi-Fi was a thing, those binary digits traveled through the phone line, making for some lovely listening. Throw on your jean jacket and sweatpants and enjoy this throwback track. Bading, bading, da baaaaaaah.

To get your packets to Europe and back, you have to take a trip under the sea. Through some underwater cables, to be exact.

Webcomic xkcd tries to shed truth on what it was really like before the internet. It's a miracle people managed to survive (apparently).

One of the internet’s founding fathers in front of the logo for a company that wouldn’t have been possible without the technology he helped create. (To be fair, most web companies wouldn't be around right now, so that isn't saying too much.)

If you're one of those people who love infographics (let's face it: who isn't?), you can see one about the transition between IPv4 and IPv6, the old and new systems for IP addressing, and all the steps we need to take to transition.