What 1990s Internet History Tells Us About the AI Boom

In the 1990s, tech companies used utopian language to sell the internet. The AI industry is taking a different approach.
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A Piece of Internet History the Internet Almost Forgot

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. The Atlantic launched its website in November 1995, 138 years after ...
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A history of the Internet, part 2: The high-tech gold rush begins

Welcome to the second article in our three-part series on the history of the Internet. If you haven't already, read part one here. As a refresher, here's the story so far: The ARPANET was a project ...
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A history of the Internet, part 3: The rise of the user

Welcome to the final article in our three-part series on the history of the Internet. If you haven’t already, catch up with part one and part two. As a refresher, here’s the story so far: The ARPANET ...
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What 1990s Internet History Tells Us About the AI Boom

In 2020, OpenAI introduced GPT-3, a large language model used to produce a variety of computer codes and other language tasks. Two years later, the company produced its Artificial Intelligence (AI) ...