He was among the first to use shadings to show data—darker where crime was worse or illiteracy higher, for example. His maps were controversial, because they rebutted conventional wisdom.

Seeing how far along it has come inspires us to wonder about where it's going. Accordingly, the fine folks at AVG have put together the following infographic about the history of the Internet. Among ...

And now other social networks, such as Instagram, Vine, and Google+, have adopted the hashtag. To learn more about the hashtag's journey from little-known character to a social media must-have, check ...

Some 350,000 or more years ago, the group of hominins that would evolve to become Neanderthals and Denisovans left Africa for Eurasia. A few hundred millennia later, about 60,000 to 70,000 years ago, ...

For example, it took until the 16th century for ... The table below sets out the time-scale of some of the major events in Earth history and developments in science and technology.