Each week Joshua Fruhlinger contributes This is the Modem World, a column dedicated to exploring the culture of consumer technology. I've known my friend Jeff since I was 2 years old. He was one year ...

That evening, computer scientist Howard Gayle responded with a facetious message titled “WARNING!” He claimed that an ...

CHRIS SERLE, IAN MCNAUGHT-DAVIS and Gill Nevill, continue their exploration of the world of information science. Even the most elaborate and sophisticated computer programs are made up of only a few ...

We’ve been highlighting the 60th anniversary of EDN in these pages by taking a look back at past articles, and bloviating hypothesizing what the next 60 years could bring. With that in mind, I was ...

Richard Skrenta’s “Elk Cloner” was 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program. Described by its author as “some dumb little practical joke,” the virus attached itself to the Apple DOS 3.3 ...

The Computer Programme was a TV series, produced by Paul Kriwaczek, originally broadcast by the BBC in 1982. The idea behind the series was to introduce people to computers and show them what they ...

NEW YORK -- What began as a ninth-grade prank earned Rich Skrenta notoriety as the first person ever to let loose a personal-computer virus. Although during the next 25 years, Skrenta started the ...

The Omni Future Almanac is 293 pages of paleo-future glory. In the “Projected Computer Milestones” section of the book I naturally turned to 2007, curious just how far behind we are. It then occurred ...

There is a new exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) that retraces the origins of when art and computers first began to intersect. Entitled Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, ...