Internet History Podcast
By Brian McCullough @brianmcc
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Description
A history of the Internet Era from Netscape to the iPad. Oral histories from the people that made the technology happen. "Chapter" episodes providing background on the history of the companies.
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Clean168. The History of Java With Todd Sundsted | People have been yelling at me for years that I’ve not covered more technical aspects of the web’s history, especially things like Java. Specifically Java. The argument can be made that Java helped the web evolve into what it’s become. So,... | 4/15/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean167. NYTimes Tech Columnist, Farhad Manjoo @fmanjoo | Today, a man who needs no introduction: New York Times Technology Columnist Farhad Manjoo. This episode was recorded about two months or so ago, so we talk about the book leave Farhad is on that he only recently made public, but of course, we get into.. | 4/1/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean166. Amazon, Hulu and Oculus with Eugene Wei | No joke, this is one of my favorite episodes we've ever done. Eugene Wei was an early employee at Hulu, so we get some details on that company for the first time, and he also worked at Flipboard and Oculus, so we get some important context especially... | 3/17/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean165. Claire L. Evans, Author of Broad Band- The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet | Claire Evans is the author of the new book: Broad Band The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet. This is the best tech history book I’ve read in a while and you know I read them all. Of special note, considering our 90s-heavy focus on... | 3/4/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean164. How the Web Came to Germany, With Thomas Ganter | Podcast listener Thomas Ganter gives us a first person, anecdotal account of how the web came to Germany in the 1990s. | 2/19/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean163. The History of Online Video with JibJab's Gregg Spiridellis | Gregg Spiridellis has been making things go viral on the web since before the term VIRAL was even a thing. His company, JibJab has been producing web videos since the dialup dotcom era, producing hits you might remember such as Elf Yourself, Nasty... | 2/5/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean162. Venrock's David Pakman on Apple's Music Group, N2K, eMusic and Dollar Shave Club | David Pakman is a well respected venture capitalist at Venrock, but also a lifelong musician and music fan. Earlier in his career he played a significant role in bringing music to the web. David tells us about cofounding Apple’s Music Group, his... | 1/21/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean161. Jeff Bussgang on Open Market and early eCommerce | It gets my goat that these days, the history of ecommerce begins and ends with Amazon. There were so many companies and big ideas that got us where we are today, and one of the most important companies was Open Market. Jeff Bussgang is here to tell us.. | 1/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean160. Growing Up With The Web With Desiree Garcia @thedezzie | An exploration of what it was like to come of age in the early web era. | 12/17/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean159. The Forgotten Story of PLATO, with Brian Dear | Plato was an online and interactive learning computer system developed in the 1960s at the University of Illinois. But in the early 1970s, Plato got truly networked, and the users took over. Plato had already pioneered such things as touch screen... | 12/10/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean158. Bob Stein of Voyager and The Criterion Collection | Bob Stein was the founder of Voyager, publisher of the first consumer CDROM titles, and, far and away the leader of the CDROM industry in the late 1980s and early 90s. Bob was also one of the founders of the Criterion Collection, as well as the... | 11/27/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean157. Rob Malda (@cmdrtaco) on SlashDot and Social Media | You might know him as Rob Malda, or you might know him as CmdrTaco, but he was the founder of the great geek social website Slashdot. Slashdot recently turned 20 years old, Rob commemorated this in a great Medium post, and so I reached out to him to... | 11/11/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean156. Dave Winer on The Open Web, Blogging, Podcasting and More | Dave Winer has been called the godfather of a lot of things. The godfather of blogging. The Godfather of Podcasting. One of the key people involved in the development of RSS. But as you’ll hear in this great and wide-ranging chat, Dave Winer is just.. | 10/29/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean155. Giphy with Nicole LaPorte | SUMMARY: Nicole Laporte has a cover story in Fast Company magazine this month about Giphy, potentially the next big story in online advertising and marketing, as well as… search? Read her profile of Giphy here. | 10/15/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean154. Om Malik on Blogging and Web 2.0 | Om Malik is, of course, a legend. One of the first journalists on the “tech beat” in the 1990s, one of the first bloggers to “turn pro,” one of the driving forces behind the Web 2.0 time period, and one of the most trusted analysts of the... | 10/1/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean153. The AOL/Time Warner Merger - Crossover with the Acquired Podcast | What is generally considered the worst merger of all time, and certainly the crescendo event of the dotcom bubble era, today we take a look at the AOL/Time Warner merger, again with the excellent guys at the podcast Acquired. | 9/17/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean152. David Shen on Early Yahoo and the Maturation of Online Advertising | David Shen was employee #17 at Yahoo, where he eventually had a hand in, not only the birth of advertising as the primary business model for the web but, eventually, the development of digital ads into their more modern, interactive form. As you'll... | 9/3/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean151. Facebook's First Senior Software Engineer, Karel Baloun | Karel Baloun was the first senior software engineer hired at Facebook in 2005. This was after the Accel round of funding, when Facebook truly began to staff up and grow up. Baloun was only at Facebook for a year, from 2005 to 2006, but he provides... | 8/13/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean150. More SoundCloud Chat with Buzzfeed's Ryan Mac | Just as last week’s episode posted, another great piece about SoundCloud was posted on Buzzfeed by the great Ryan Mac. So, in a rare attempt by me to be topical, today’s episode is with Ryan Mac, discussing his article, which fills in some of the... | 8/6/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean149. Christina Warren on SoundCloud | Our friend Christina Warren is back for another analysis episode. Christina recently posted a tweetstorm about SoundCloud, and its prospects for the future. So she kindly agreed to come on the show, look at the history of SoundCloud as a company, and... | 7/30/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean148. Don Melton on Apple, Safari, WebKit and Netscape | Don Melton is popularly known as the father of the Safari web browser or WebKit. He’s basically a web browser legend. Not only does Don tell us a lot of great stuff about Safari, WebKit, Apple and more, but he was also an early Netscape employee, so.. | 7/23/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean147. The First Text Message With Neil Papworth | The first text message (or, to be accurate, SMS message) was sent on December 3, 1992. It was sent by Neil Papworth, and it said, “Merry Christmas.” This is the story of that first text, recorded for the first time. | 7/9/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean146. Mike Slade on Steve Jobs' Return To Apple | As promised, Mike Slade is back to tell stories from the period 1998 through 2004, when he was Special Assistant to Steve Jobs. Background details on the iMac, the iPod and the iPhone and more! | 6/25/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean145. Brian Merchant, Author of The One Device | Finally! A detailed history of the development of the iPhone inside Apple. But not only that, an extensive history of all the technologies that came together to make the iPhone possible. Lithium ion battery technology, touchscreen technology, Gorilla... | 6/18/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean144. The "First" Blogger, Justin Hall | A lot of people give credit to Justin Hall for being, if not the first, then spiritually, at least, the “first” blogger. Since early 1994, first as Justin’s Homepage and at various points, as Justin’s Links from the Underground and Links.net,... | 6/11/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean143. Neil Hunt on the History of Netflix and Netflix Streaming | For several months now, I've been complaining on Twitter and a bunch of other places that, for as ubiquitous as Netflix streaming has become—I think it's one of the most important technology products of the last decade at least— there's actually... | 5/29/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean142. Andy Rachleff @arachleff co-founder of Benchmark and Wealthfront | Andy Rachleff was a co-founder of Benchmark, one of the most respected venture capital firms to this very day, and one of the biggest venture players during the dotcom era. On today’s episode, Andy gives us more background on eBay’s founding and... | 5/21/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean141. Nathan Latka @NathanLatka of the Top Entrepreneurs Podcast | Summary Check out The Top Entrepreneurs Podcast here! Books recommended on this episode: Storming the Magic Kingdom Walt Disney Unconventional Success Say Everything The Wikipedia Revolution The Innovators The Expanse | 5/13/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean140. The Google Chef, Charlie Ayers | The famous Google Chef, Charlie Ayers, remembers joining Google when it was about 50 employees, the company’s early growth, culture, and the unique role he played in shaping that culture. | 4/24/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean139. The Napster Story with Jordan Ritter | If you know the Napster story at all, then you know about the Shawn(Sean)s. Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker. But in my opinion, and in the opinion of a lot of other people, a name that you should be just as familiar with is Jordan Ritter. Napster was an.. | 4/16/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean138. (Ch. 9.2) The History of Google Part 2 | There was one important trait that Google shared with the dotcoms: it wasn’t making very much money. It’s somewhat forgotten, given what would come later, but Google existed for several years without much of a business plan. The vision Larry and... | 4/10/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean137. (Ch. 9.1) The History of Google Part 1 | When Larry and Sergey first met, they didn’t like each other much... BIBLIOGRAPHY: In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives The Google Story How Google Works The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and... | 4/2/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean136. Petstore.com's Joshua Newman on the Pets Space During the Dotcom Era | During the dot-com era in the late 90s, there were four different venture-backed startups (six, depending on how you count) that focused on the pet retail space. Most famous, or notorious, I guess was Pets.com, of the sock puppet fame, but today,... | 3/26/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean135. The Pseudo.com Story With Dennis Adamo | Before Snapchat Stories, before YouTube, in the dial-up era of the 90s, there were a select few who were experimenting with streaming video and interactive media on the web. The most prominent and notorious of these pioneers was Pseudo.com. Dennis... | 3/19/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean134. Yahoo's Acquisition of Overture (Crossover Ep. w/the Acquired Podcast) | Today's episode is a special event, a crossover episode with the Acquired Podcast, which you can find in your podcast directory by searching for the word Acquired, or by going to Acquired.fm. Acquired is hosted by Ben Gilbert, the Co-Founder of... | 3/12/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean133. Gary Flake on Overture, Yahoo and the History of Search | Gary Flake has been involved with search technology ever since he got turned on to this particular field in college. In this wide-ranging discussion, Gary lays out for us, basically, the history of search technology before Google, the impact of... | 2/26/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean132. MG Siegler @mgsiegler on TechCrunch and GV | You all know MG Siegler. From TechCrunch’s most famous blogger to GV’s most affable venture capitalist, he has a lot to say about Apple, the business of blogging and where Silicon Valley is at in the modern era. | 2/19/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean131. Elizabeth Osder on the NYTimes.com, Yahoo and More | Elizabeth Osder is one of those digital media veterans who’s career has spanned the entire web era, from bringing the New York Times online (though, she got her native New Jersey online first by launching NJ.com a few years beforehand) all the way... | 2/12/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean130. AOL, AIM, Chat Rooms, The Time Warner Merger... AOL's History with Joe Schober | Joe Schober was the longest serving employee of America Online, working there as an engineer, and later chief architect, from 1992 until just a few years ago. So, there literally couldn't be anyone better to walk us through AOL's history and many... | 2/5/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean129. Michael March on the Indie ISP Industry, and the Birth of Online Spam | Michael March was the founder of Internet Direct, the first commercial ISP in Arizona. Michael gives us a first-hand account of the independent ISP industry that grew up around the country in the 1990s. AOL might have been the training wheels for the... | 1/29/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean128. Jim McCann of 1800Flowers | Would it surprise you to learn that 1800Flowers was not only one of the first ecommerce pioneers but quite possibly, the first to be profitable in a meaningful way? You wouldn't be surprised if you knew the story of 1800Flowers and its founder, Jim... | 1/15/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean127. The History of the iPhone, On Its 10th Anniversary | "So… Three things: A widescreen iPod with touch controls. A revolutionary mobile phone. And a breakthrough internet communications device. An iPod… a phone… and an internet communicator… An iPod, a phone… are you getting it? These are not... | 1/6/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean126. (Ch. 8) How the Dotcom Bubble Happened | The background, root causes and rough outline of the dotcom bubble. How it happened, why it happened... and why it's unlikely to happen again anytime soon. | 12/31/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean125. Sebastian Mallaby on Alan Greenspan and the Dotcom Bubble | As most of you know, I’m busy writing a book that this podcast is partially source material for, and at the moment, I’m deep in the weeds on chapters about the Dotcom bubble—how it happened, why it happened, that sort of thing. By necessity,... | 12/12/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean124. Founder of ReadWriteWeb, Richard MacManus | Summary Sometimes you get to talk to your actual heroes. I've been reading Richard MacManus probably almost as long as he's been writing on the web. He is the founder of the popular ReadWriteWeb blog, and he was one of the forces behind the... | 11/27/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean123. Founder of Reel.com, Stuart Skorman | Summary At the dawn of e-commerce, if Amazon.com staked a claim in books, and sites like CDNow staked a claim in music, then Reel.com should be remembered as the important dot-com era player in movie retail. But more than just going toe to toe... | 11/13/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean122. The First Web Search Engine? With Oliver McBryan | If you’ll remember back to the chapter episode on the early search engines and Yahoo, I said that it’s hard to pin down exactly what the “first search engine” was. There were so many competing projects and technologies that launched in... | 11/6/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean121. Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath on Facebook, AIM and WinAmp | Summary Most of you know Chamath Palihapitiya as one of the most prominent and progressive venture capitalists working today. But before forming Social Capital, Chamath was an early employee at a startup we've already covered, WinAmp; was the head of... | 10/30/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean120. Jason Calacanis @jason on Silicon Alley, The Dot-Com Bubble and Web 2.0 | Most of you will know Jason Calacanis from his many high profile endeavors such as his podcasts (especially This Week in Startups) his Launch conference and Inside.com. But older listeners will remember Jason as one of the most colorful personalities... | 10/24/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean119. The Story of Slate.com with Julia Turner @juliaturner and Jacob Weisberg @jacobwe | SUMMARY I missed it (I should really be keeping a calendar of these things) but Slate.com celebrated its 20th anniversary last month. If you’ll recall, we went into some detail about Slate’s founding in this chapter episode, but today we have... | 10/9/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean118. The Birth of Amazon's 3rd Party Platform with John Rossman | John Rossman helped transform Amazon.com’s business. After the dotcom bubble burst, Amazon delved into a new business line that allowed third parties to do business off of Amazon’s platform, and make use of Amazon’s many competencies. In this... | 9/26/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean117. Founder of Friendster and Nuzzel, Jonathan Abrams | Jonathan Abrams was the founder of the first modern social networking site, Friendster. This is essentially the story of the birth of social media… the ideas that inspired the very notion of social networking, the struggles to launch a web startup... | 9/18/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean116. Director of the Documentary Silicon Cowboys ( @Silicon_Cowboys ) Jason Cohen | If you'll remember a few years ago I spoke with Rod Canion about how Compaq created the industry standard computer platform that finally supplanted IBM. Well, this week, on September 16, a new documentary about the Compaq story, called Silicon... | 9/12/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean115. Mike Slade on 80s Microsoft, NeXT, Starwave and Steve Jobs' Return to Apple | I originally wanted to talk to Mike Slade about Starwave, the innovative company that launched some major names onto the web, including ESPN.com, ABCNews.com, MrShowbiz.com, and after an eventual sale to Disney, put together the pieces that eventually.. | 9/4/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean114. Douglas Colbeth, CEO of Spyglass | We've spoken a lot on this show about Netscape and the "Browser Wars," but there's a key angle to this story that we haven't had the chance to delve into yet. While Netscape was out in California creating Navigator, there was another company,... | 8/28/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean113. Joel Johnson on Gawker and the Rise of Professional Blogging | Summary Joel Johnson has spent nearly his entire professional career, working in digital media. He went from being an anonymous online commenter to being an early editor of Gizmodo, to eventually becoming editorial director of Gawker Media.... | 8/8/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean112. Inventor of the First Digital Camera, Steven Sasson | Summary Steve Sasson was the inventor of the world's first digital camera. Because it's hard to imagine modern life without digital photography, it's maybe easy to forget what a marvel it really is. And Sasson has been front and center for the... | 7/31/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAnnouncing the Podcast Book! | Quick, special announcement of a book, based on the podcast, coming from Liveright (W.W. Norton) in 2018. Regular episode to come next monday... | 7/25/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean111. CompuServe Founder Jeff Wilkins | Summary Jeff Wilkins was the co-founder and first CEO of CompuServe, perhaps the original consumer online service. Jeff recounts for us CompuServe's founding in 1970, the launch of it's consumer-facing service in 1980, and all of the innovations that... | 7/5/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean110. Hunter Walk Talks Second Life, Google Adsense and YouTube | Special Note: We’re testing something new this week. You can read a full transcription of this episode here. Everyone’s favorite, friendly neighborhood Venture Capitalist, Hunter Walk, discusses four amazing segments of his career: Late Night With.. | 6/12/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean109. The History of Sierra Online with Laine Nooney | Summary Ken and Roberta Williams were the founders of the legendary PC gaming company Sierra Online. Assistant Professor of Digital Media in the School of Literature, Media and Communication at Georgia Tech, Laine Nooney, joins the show to... | 6/5/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean108. BabyCenter.com Founders Mark Selcow and Matt Glickman | Mark Selcow and Matt Glickman were the founders of BabyCenter.com. The story of BabyCenter is a combination of several themes we've discussed on this show: creating community as a strategy for building a sustainable audience, attempting e-commerce in... | 5/30/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean107. Founder of Marketwatch, Larry Kramer @lkramer | Summary Larry Kramer was the founder of MarketWatch.com. He’s also been the President and Publisher of USA Today and he’s currently interim CEO of TheStreet.com. We talk to him about creating a brand like MarketWatch in a space dominated by... | 5/22/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean106. Co-Founder of Tesla, Marc Tarpenning | Summary Marc Tarpenning, along with Martin Eberhard, was the cofounder of Tesla Motors back in 2003. But before that, Tarpenning and Eberhard were also the cofounders of NuvoMedia, which produced one of the world's first ebook devices, the rocket... | 5/15/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean105. Tom Rielly, Founder of PlanetOut | Summary Tom Rielly was the founder of PlanetOut, the largest LGBT website and community of the 1990s. Tom recounts the unique impact the web and online technology had on the LGBT community and, prior to that, remembers the early days of the Mac... | 5/8/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean104. Suck Again! Joey Anuff And Carl Steadman Return! | Summary What more do I need to say? Joey and Carl are back for round two. You can visit the Suck archives here. | 5/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean103. Rafat Ali @rafat of PaidContent and Skift | Summary I can't be sure about this exactly, but I would hazard to say Rafat Ali is possibly patient zero when it comes to taking a blog and turning it into a real, 21st century media company. Before the Huffington Post, before... | 4/25/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean102. Analysis Ep. 5 - The History and Future of Automotive Tech with Mike Dushane | I know it’s a bit beyond our usual chronology of 90s-era technology, but car tech has come up so much in recent episodes, that I thought it was high time to learn more about the history and future of automotive tech. Electronic vehicles, Tesla,... | 4/10/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean101. Matt Kursh on Pen Computing, Sidewalk and MSN | Summary Matt Kursh was a part of the pre-web Silicon Valley frenzy for pen computing that we’ve spoken about several times on this show. Matt is kind enough to give us an in depth look at that mini-bubble and explains how it happened and how it... | 3/21/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean100. The Man Who Could Have Been Bill Gates? The Gary Kildall Story | Summary To celebrate our 100th episode, we’re taking a special look at one of the foundational legends of the technology industry. It’s about the man who invented the modern disc operating system (the OS) and the concept of the software... | 3/13/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean99. Founders of Suck.com, Carl Steadman and Joey Anuff | Summary Carl Steadman and Joey Anuff were the founders of perhaps the most influential of the early web content sites, Suck.com. If you’re unfamiliar with Suck, you’re about to get a taste of why so many of us have been such big fans... | 2/28/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean98. Rob Lord, Founder of the Internet Underground Music Archive | Summary Rob Lord was the founder of the Internet Underground Music Archive all the way back in 1993. This would become the first website devoted to the distribution of music via MP3 downloads, and very much paved the way for a lot of what came later.... | 2/24/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean97. Chris Fralic @chrisfralic Discusses Half.com and Del.icio.us | Summary Most of you will know Chris Fralic as a partner in the VC firm First Round Capital, here in New York City. But Chris was also heavily involved in two key companies that we’ll be talking more about over the next year, Half.com and... | 2/14/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean96. The First "Web" Cam With Quentin Stafford-Fraser | Summary I wanted to speak to Quentin Stafford-Fraser because he was involved in the first “web” cam. I say “web” in quotes because, it wasn’t technically on the web, but, well, you’ll understand the distinction... | 2/8/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean95. Pathfinder Executive Paul Sagan | Summary Paul Sagan has had a long and illustrious career, which includes: 1) stints working on the Full Service Network, that interactive tv initiative in Orlando Florida that we've mentioned several times in the past, as well as 2) being a key... | 2/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean94. Founder of the First Dorm Room Dot Com, Tripod's Bo Peabody | There's a certain romance surrounding dorm room startups. From Microsoft, to Dell, to Facebook, there's something about the audacity of building a company before you even get your degree that catches the imagination. The title for the first of the Dot.. | 1/10/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean93. (Misc 4) Minitel, the French Internet That Came Before the Web | SummaryToday we’re going to talk a bit about alternate Internets. In previous episodes, we have outlined how, going back to the 1970s and 80s, early experiments with networked computing and online services began using a technology called... | 1/3/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean92. Founder of the World's First Commercial Website, Dale Dougherty | Summary Dale Dougherty was the organizer of the world’s first ever web developers conference, the World Wide Web Wizards Workshop in July of 1993. This was where Tim Berners-Lee and Marc Andreessen first met. Dale is also the man who... | 12/14/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean91. Co-Founder of Feed Magazine, Stefanie Syman | Summary If you'll remember in Episode 32, we explored the early digital media startups like Salon, Slate, Suck, Pathfinder, etc. One site that was mentioned, but did not get a lot of detail in that episode was Feed Magazine (aka, Feedmag.com, or... | 12/6/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean90. CEO of MapQuest, Barry Glick, Discusses the History and Future of Location Tech | Summary I don't think very many people, twenty years ago, would have imagined that maps, location technology and the like would prove to be so strategically important and structurally integral to the Internet and modern technology as we're coming to... | 11/20/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean89. How Tom Hadfield Founded Soccernet At Age 13 | Summary Tom Hadfield was the founder of Soccernet, which is still the premiere soccer (football!) website in the world. But just as the title says, Tom began Soccernet when he was twelve or thirteen. So, certainly, Tom takes the cake, out of anyone... | 11/8/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean88. How Microsoft Went Online, With Brad Silverberg | Summary: In the early 1990s, Brad Silverberg was one of the key champions of the Internet within Microsoft. As the first ever Senior Vice President of the Internet Platform and Tools Group, he essentially led Microsoft’s efforts to embrace the... | 11/2/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean87. Tim DeMello Talks Home Delivery Startups | Summary: One of the big trends of recent years in the tech space has been the rise of delivery startups like Instacart and Postmates and the like. In a way, this is a resurrection of an idea, if you remember famous 90s startups like WebVan, Peapod... | 10/26/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean86. Martin Nisenholtz on Bringing the New York Times Online | Martin Nisenholtz is a digital media pioneer. He founded perhaps the first digital marketing group at Olgilvy and Mather all the way back in 1983. But from 1995 through 2012, he was first the President of New York Times Electronic Media and then CEO... | 10/18/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean85. Evan Kirstel @evankirstel Discusses The Wireless Industry and Broadband | Listen: Evan Kirstel is a 20 year veteran of the wireless, broadband, cloud and social space. He is also absolutely the number one person to follow on Twitter if you like a daily dose of amazing articles and blog posts. Evan helps me frame just that:... | 10/11/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean84. Analysis Ep. 4 "Clutching Pearls" With Chris Higgins | Summary: Chris Higgins is back! In this very fun episode we talk about Windows 95, command line computing, who is the Microsoft of tech today and how the Matrix is the perfect hacker/Internet movie. Listen, we promised a bunch of things would be in... | 10/4/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean83. Founder of Travelocity, Terry Jones | Summary: Terry Jones was the founder and CEO of Travelocity. Perhaps the primary pioneer in the online travel space, Terry explains the unique challenges Travelocity faced when dealing with the airline industry, fending off competition from the... | 9/27/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean82. (Ch. 7.4) eBay Wins the Auction Wars | Summary: Part 2 of eBay’s founding story. How, why and when eBay became the undisputed king of the online auction space. Bibliography: The Perfect Store: Inside eBay The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side... | 9/21/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean81. Founder of WebCal and "Turbo Yahoo" Bruce Spector | Summary: Bruce Spector is another early web entrepreneur whose company would be acquired during the dotcom era. In this case, the company was WebCal and the acquirer was Yahoo. Bruce later went on to spearhead Yahoo's acquisitions during... | 9/15/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean80. Founder of CBS Sportsline Mike Levy | Summary: There was a time, early on in the web era, where things were very much wide open. An entrepreneur could survey the scene and say, "No one has done a great sports site yet. Why don't I build one?" Mike Levy did just that, taking on... | 9/7/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean79. Glenn Fleishman @GlennF Returns! | Summary: Glenn Fleishman is back to talk more about Amazon's founding mythologies, the recent controversies surrounding Amazon's work culture, and the effect the web revolution has had on publishing and journalism, but from the point of view of a... | 8/30/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean78. Yahoo's Master Brand Builder, Karen Edwards | Summary: Most people agree that Yahoo the king of the dot-com-era search sites on the strength of its zany, friendly, ubiquitous brand. The woman responsible for building that brand was Karen Edwards. Karen recounts becoming the first... | 8/24/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean77. Narendra Rocherolle @narendra of Webshots and 30 Boxes | Summary: How did we get from a place where people were completely skeptical of living their personal lives online to the "share everything" society we live in now? Well, companies like Webshots got us here. Webshots was the... | 8/16/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean76. Steve Goldberg of Microsoft and the IAB | Summary: Steve Goldberg was the first hire for Microsoft's Advertising division. He was present at the launch of such projects as MSNBC, Slate, Expedia and MSN, the portal. Steve goes into fascinating detail about Microsoft's... | 8/2/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean75. The Development of Consumer Broadband with Intel's Avram Miller | Summary: Avram Miller was the co-founder of Intel Capital, and during the 90s, racked up some of the greatest venture fund successes of all time, backing such companies as Broadcast.com, Geocities, CNET and more. Crucially, for our... | 7/26/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean74. Developer of Winamp, Justin Frankel | Summary: A conversation with Justin Frankel, creator of the Winamp application, which was arguably the software package responsible for popularizing the MP3. | 7/19/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean73. "Father" of the MP3, Karlheinz Brandenburg | This is the story of MP3, the technology that (revolutionized? upended? destroyed? transformed?) changed music forever. It is also a conversation with the man who is most responsible for developing MP3 technology, Karlheinz Brandenburg. | 7/13/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean72. Owen Thomas Returns! | Summary: Owen Thomas is back on the show for another analysis episode, helping us establish the context for the dot-com era. You can listen to his previous episode here. Note: Next week's episode will be dropping on Tuesday morning. | 7/6/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean71. Founder of Quote.com, Chris Cooper | Summary: Get ready for one of the most fascinating entrepreneurial stories we've covered thus far on the show. Chris Cooper was the founder of Quote.com, which, as you'll see, powered the finance portals of everyone from the search engines... | 6/28/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean70. The Forgotten Story Of The Original IPhone Released In 1998 | It turns out that almost exactly 9 years before Steve Jobs introduced the world to the iPhone, there was another 3-in-1 device that was introduced to the world, and it just so happened that that device was also known as an iPhone. But the company... | 6/21/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean69. Steve Yelvington Discusses Newspapers and the Early Web | Summary: Today we’re going to go a bit backwards in our timeline, back to some of the issues we covered in our Chapter 5 episodes. All of the research I did on newspapers and their early attempts to experiment with digital media came... | 6/15/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean68. Founder of When.com, Ted Barnett | Summary: So far in our project, we've mostly spoken to people who were involved in startups that went public in the dot com era. But as I've said many times, that's only part of the story. I very much wanted to speak to someone involved with... | 6/8/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean67. Journalist Maggie Mahar Discusses the Dot-Com Bubble | Summary: Maggie Mahar is an award-winning journalist who has written for Money magazine, Institutional Investor, the New York Times, Bloomberg, and in the 1990s, covered the markets for Barron’s Magazine. She is also the author of an... | 6/1/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean66. (Ch. 7.3) The Founding of eBay | ...or, to be more strictly accurate, this episode covers the founding of AuctionWeb, the site that would become eBay. How Pierre Omidyar founded a company that brought auctions to the web and revolutionized what classified ads and ecommerce could be. | 5/25/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean65. The "Book Club" Episode | Summary: Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet, by Katie Hafner The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, by Walter Isaacson The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information... | 5/17/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean64. Geocities Founder David Bohnett | Summary: We continue our survey of the pioneering social/community sites by sitting down with David Bohnett, who, along with John Rezner, founded Geocities. David recounts how a lifelong passion for communications tech inspired the idea of... | 5/11/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean63. TheGlobe Co-Founder Todd Krizelman | Summary: One of the biggest names of the dot-com era was TheGlobe.com. It had one of the most successful and storied IPO's of it's day, and it was lead by two early-twenties co-founders, long before that sort of thing was common. Todd Krizelman... | 5/4/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean62. iVillage Co-Founder Nancy Evans | Summary: Nancy Evans and Candice Carpenter founded iVillage in the mid 1990s. iVillage was one of the first community-focused sites on the early web, and grew to be one of the biggest of its ilk. Not only was iVillage a site and a company... | 4/27/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean61. (Ch 7.2) Amazon's Dominance of eCommerce | Summary: It’s part two of our Amazon founding story. How did Amazon come to completely dominate e-commerce? How did Jeff Bezos’ “Get Big Fast” strategy evolve? How and why did Amazon become the quintessential “dot... | 4/19/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean60. Early eBay Executive (And Future California Governor?) Steve Westly | Summary: If you are a Californian, then you might know Steve Westly's name very well. After all, in the mid 2000s, Westly was elected Controller of California, essentially the Chief Financial officer of the state, and he also ran for Governor in... | 4/12/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean59. Early Amazon Engineer and Co-Developer of the Recommendation Engine, Greg Linden | Summary: As you know, we’ve been trying to cover from every angle, the innovations that ecommerce sites in general, and Amazon.com specifically, brought to the world. That is why I was thrilled to get to speak with Greg Linden, who was one of... | 4/5/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean58. Robert Levitan of iVillage and Flooz | Summary: Robert Levitan has been involved in many pioneering tech companies. The two that I wanted to focus on were iVillage, one of the early web community sites, one of the very first sites to engage with women as a segment of the online audience,... | 3/29/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean57. (I Lied) The Special Requests Episode | I lied about there not being a show this week. Except, it's not a show. It's more of a state-of-the-podcast address, celebrating (belatedly) our one year anniversary. http://www.internethistorypodcast.com/donate/ | 3/23/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean56. Infoseek Founder (and Inventor of the Optical Mouse) Steve Kirsch | Summary: Steve Kirsch is one of the most fascinating entrepreneurs we’ve been lucky enough to speak to on this show. Going back to the 1980s, he was the inventor of the optical mouse. Back in the days of desktop software suites, he brought... | 3/16/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean55. The Watershed Year of 1995 with W. Joseph Campbell | Summary: W. Joseph Campbell is a Professor in the School of Communication at American University. He is the author of six nonfiction books, including Getting It Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism. Just... | 3/9/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean54. CDNow CEO Michael Krupit | Summary: Michael Krupit first joined CDNow as the Chief Technology officer. He soon took over COO duties, and eventually rose to become CEO of the entire CDNow operation. Mike gives us the background on the early days of another early... | 3/2/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean53. Match.com and Sex.com Founder Gary Kremen | Summary: Gary Kremen is another early internet legend. Kremen was one of the first people to recognize the opportunity that the Internet presented in terms of classifieds advertising. Seizing this opportunity, Kremen founded Match.com, to this day,... | 2/22/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean52. (Ch 7.1) The Birth of Amazon.com | Summary: Finally, the long-promised foray into e-commerce, starting with… not the first… but practically the first… player in the space… and ironically enough, the 800 pound gorilla in the space to this day.... | 2/16/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean51. Glenn Fleishman @GlennF Discusses Early Amazon | Summary: You may know Glenn Fleishman from a bunch of things. He has written for Wired, Fortune, Popular Science, The New York Times, and PCWorld, and contributes regularly to The Economist, The Seattle Times, Macworld, etc. Also, in the last few... | 2/9/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean50. Amazon's Technical Co-Founder and Employee #1, Shel Kaphan | Summary: Shel Kaphan was the very first person hired by Jeff Bezos to launch Amazon.com. A lot of people consider Shel to be a co-founder in all but name, because he, along with Paul Davis, was largely responsible for the entire technical... | 2/1/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean49. Lycos Founder and CEO Bob Davis @BobDavisHCP | Summary: Bob Davis was not only the founder of the search engine/web portal known as Lycos, he was also the CEO, first employee, and for a time, the ONLY employee. Bob recounts how Lycos took technology from academia, turned it into a viable company,... | 1/26/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean48. Amazon Director, Customer Service Strategy, Jane Slade | Summary: Jane Slade joined Amazon.com's nascent customer service team when it was a couple of people, some computers, and one phone line. Over the coming years, she helped to build the customer service operations at Amazon into the enormous team... | 1/19/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean47. Analysis Episode with Christina Warren of Mashable.com @film_girl | Summary: Christina Warren is the Senior Tech Analyst for Mashable.com. She came on the podcast to talk with me about Amazon’s place in the tech universe, Jeff Bezos as an entrepreneur, and to break down what might be the four or five... | 1/12/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean46. (Ch 6) A History of Internet Porn | So, I ran across this quote from Star Trek television producer Rick Berman. He said, “Without porn and Star Trek, there would be no Internet.” That’s a notion that I have to say really kind of rang true to me, in a tonge and cheek... | 1/4/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean45. Excite Co-Founder Ryan McIntyre | Ryan McIntyre, along with his fellow Stanford classmates (Graham Spencer, Joe Kraus, Mark Van Haren, Ben Lutch and Martin Reinfried) was one of the "Excite 6" who founded the Excite search engine in the early 1990s. Ryan recounts what it was like... | 12/15/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean44. The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, Co-Founder of Akamai Technologies | Summary: On HBO, the show Silicon Valley is about a young kid who comes up with a billion-dollar algorithm and attempts to build a company around the technology. Well, there's a real-life parallel, because that is what happened to Danny Lewin in the... | 12/8/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean43. Danny Sullivan @dannysullivan on the History and Future of Search | Summary: Danny Sullivan is generally acknowledged as THE expert on the search industry (www.searchengineland.com). Danny first got his start coving search all the way back in 1996, and for almost twenty years, he has covered search technology as... | 12/1/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean42. (Misc 3) Did Al Gore Really Invent the Internet? | As you know, often on this podcast, I run across issues or tidbits from the past that don’t quite fit our overall narrative. But sometimes those tidbits are just too interesting for me to ignore. One of those things I keep running across is Al... | 11/24/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean41. Excite.com CEO George Bell | Summary: George Bell was the CEO of Excite.com, took that pioneering search engine public, and became the CEO of Excite@Home when he oversaw that major merger of the dotcom era. George talks about the development of search technology, the madness of... | 11/17/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean40. Microsoft and Internet Explorer Executive, Ben Slivka | Summary: I was absolutely thrilled that Ben Slivka agreed to come on the podcast with us. Obviously, we’ve had plenty of oral histories relating to Netscape and the development of it’s browser. But we’ve only spoken to a handful of... | 11/9/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean39. CNET Founder Halsey Minor | Summary: Halsey Minor is an absolutely legend when it comes to the online era. Along with names like Jerry Yang, Jeff Bezos, Pierre Omidyar and others, Halsey Minor deserves credit for creating one of the first truly great companies on the... | 11/3/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean38. An Oral History Of The Web's First Banner Ads | The first banner ads went live on the web 20 years ago today, October 27th, 1994, when the website HotWired.com first launched on the internet. We've spoken to some of the people responsible for the creation of these ads, and so, in honor of the... | 10/26/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean37. Wired Magazine Founding Editor John Battelle @johnbattelle | Summary: Younger listeners might know John Battelle as being one of the original forces behind the Web 2.0 movement, as the founder of the Web 2.0 Summit as well as Federated Media. But John was also the founding editor of both Wired Magazine and... | 10/20/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean36. Talking Early Online Services With Chris Higgins @chrishiggins | Summary: Another conversation with writer and journalist Chris Higgins. We start up talking about the recent sad demise of the Magazine, a project Chris was heavily involved in. But then we spend most of the episode talking about the early... | 10/13/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean35. Joe McCambley Discusses Advertising and the First Banner Ads | Summary: Joe McCambley is one of the more prominent names in modern digital marketing and advertising. He's had major roles at Digitas, at AOL in it's modern incarnation and he's the co-founder of the Wonder Factory. I wanted to talk to Joe about his... | 10/6/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean34. Owen Thomas of HotWired and Suck | Summary: Owen Thomas is one of the most prominent voices in modern web media. He is currently the editor in chief of ReadWrite.com, but he was also the west coast editor for Business Insider, the founding editor of Daily Dot, executive editor of... | 9/29/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean33. HotWired CEO Andrew Anker | Summary: Soon after the founding of Wired Magazine, it was decided that Wired needed a major web presence. Andrew Anker was recruited to write a business plan and launch a website that would become HotWired.com. As we’ve seen in this... | 9/22/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean32. (Ch 5.2) Wired, CNET, Slate, Salon and Suck | More Early Web Media Plays | 9/15/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean31. Real Networks Founder and CEO Rob Glaser | Summary: Rob Glaser was, and is, the founder and CEO of Real Networks. If you were around in the 90s, you’ll remember Real Audio and Real Video and the Real Media player. In the age before broadband, Real Networks pioneered streaming media on... | 9/8/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean30. (Misc 2) The NSA And The 1990s Debate Over the Clipper Chip | Summary: What the mid-1990's debate about the so-called "clipper chip" can teach us about our contemporary debates concerning NSA surveillance of the Internet and the Web. This episode was originally written as a piece on Medium, entitled The... | 9/1/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean29. Analysis Episode 1 With Chris Higgins @chrishiggins | Summary: A new kind of episode today. I sat down with writer, blogger and former programmer Chris Higgins to do a sort of analysis episode, expanding on some of the issues covered in Chapters 1 and 2. Hope you enjoy. | 8/25/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean28. Pathfinder Executive Oliver Knowlton | Oliver Knowlton is another one of our Pathfinder.com alumni. He’s had a wide and varied career in media, from his role as the General Manager of Sports Illustrated to his current role as the VP of the Digital Portfolio Group at Gannett, he’s been wo | 8/18/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean27. She Gave The World A Billion AOL CDs - An Interview With Marketing Legend Jan Brandt | Jan Brandt is a legend in the world of marketing. She singlehandedly led the famous AOL "carpet-bombing" campaign that put millions of AOL trial discs and CDs in everything from magazines to popcorn boxes to banks. AOL was able to leap to the front of t | 8/11/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean26. Head of Time New Media Executive Linda McCutcheon | Linda McCutcheon is another Pathfinder veteran. She came up through Time Inc. on the marketing side, so she was the one responsible for landing the first advertisements that ran on the Pathfinder site. But she also stayed at Time Warner through the enti | 8/4/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean25. Pathfinder Editorial Executive Craig Bromberg | Craig Bromberg has had a long and fascinating career at the intersection of media and technology. An early adopter of online technologies, Craig was a freelance writer when he was chosen by Pathfinder head Walter Isaacson to become the first editorial d | 7/28/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean24. (Ch 5.1) Mercury Center and Pathfinder - Big Media's Big Web Adventure | We’ve been looking at how companies were feeling their way into the internet era, trying to create new industries and new mediums without precedent or a road map. But thus far, we’ve mainly been looking at pure-play tech companies. And when the web | 7/20/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean23. Co-Founder of FocaLink, Dave Zinman | Today we have an interview with Dave Zinman, co-founder of FocaLink Media services, which, if you'll recall, developed the first remote ad server. We previously spoke to his co-founder, Jason Strober. Dave is a long time advertising industry veteran. He | 7/14/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean22. Co-Founder of DoubleClick, Kevin O'Connor | Kevin O’Connor is the co-founder of the granddaddy of all Internet advertising companies, DoubleClick. Chances are, if you’ve seen a banner ad over the last decade or so, it was served up behind the scenes by DoubleClick’s DART technology. Now the | 6/23/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean21. Yahoo Employee #3, Tim Brady | When you talk about Yahoo, most people know the names Jerry Yang and David Filo. But if you talk to people who were there at the time, there is another name that everyone mentions: Tim Brady. Tim was Yahoo’s employee number 3. He wrote the original Ya | 6/16/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean20. (Ch 4.2) How Yahoo Became The Web's First Great Company | Summary: Yahoo became the web’s first truly great company, and in this episode, we examine why. Turning to advertising as a business model, Yahoo was among the first to find a way for the Internet to generate real money. In addition, we look back at | 6/9/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean19. Co-Founder of Netgravity, John Danner | This is a wide ranging and fascinating interview with John Danner. John was the co-founder of another of the major internet advertising pioneers, NetGravity. John gives us some more great background on how the technology and culture of the advertising i | 6/2/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean18. The True Story Behind Halt And Catch Fire - An Interview With Rod Canion | This Sunday, AMC is premiering a new original series called Halt And Catch Fire. Set in the early 1980s, it tells the story of a band of cowboy entrepreneurs and engineers who join the PC Wars by cloning an IBM machine and taking on Big Blue for control | 5/26/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean17. Co-Creator of the First Remote Ad Server, Jason Strober | In this episode we continue our exploration into the roots Internet advertising. We’re speaking with Jason Strober, another Internet Advertising pioneer and co-founder of Focalink Media Services, Inc. Focalink was responsible for arguably the first re | 5/20/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean16. Internet Explorer Team Member, Hadi Partovi @hadip | Hadi Partovi was one of the original 9 people on the Internet Explorer project. He left Microsoft in the late 90s to found Tellme Networks, which was eventually acquired by Microsoft for $800 million dollars. This precipitated a second stint at Microsof | 5/14/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean15. (Ch 4.1) The Early Search Engines And Yahoo | As the early web grows, the explosion of content and websites creates chaos. Early search engines are among the most popular sites on the early web, as users try to find their way around the new medium. Sites like Excite, Lycos, Alta Vista and others tr | 5/9/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean14. (Misc 1) The Forgotten Online Pioneer, Bill von Meister | What If I Told You… there was a crazy entrepreneur who was the true founder of what would become America Online? He was the guy who hired Steve Case back before AOL was AOL. | 4/25/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean13. Co-Designer of the First Banner Ad, Co-Founder of Razorfish, Craig Kanarick | raig Kanarick was one of the people responsible for the first ever banner ad, which appeared on Oct. 27, 1994 on Hotwired.com. As mentioned in the podcast, there’s no “first” ad, as several were launched in a rotation at the same time. But as ment | 4/17/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean12. (Ch 3.2) The Rise of AOL | America Online survives the inevitable run-in with Microsoft, only to come out the other side stronger. The company has to endure major PR fiascos and network capacity issues, but eventually sees itself firmly established as one of the major players of | 4/11/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean11. (Ch 3.1) CompuServe, Prodigy, AOL and the Early Online Services | We take a step back to look at the early online services: CompuServe, Delphi, GEine, the WELL and especially, early AOL. Why? Well, because online services very much served as “training wheels” for the Internet. Online services were NOT the Internet | 4/3/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean10. Rob McCool, Founding Engineer, Mosaic and Netscape | Rob McCool is another of the core group of original Mosaic programmers who went on to found Netscape. Unlike a lot of the others we have spoken to, he worked more on the server side of the equation for both projects. Rob was also the original author of | 4/2/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean9. Jon Mittelhauser, Founding Engineer, Mosaic and Netscape | An interview with founding Mosaic and Netscape engineer Jon Mittelhauser | 3/27/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean8. Aleks Totic, of Mosaic and Netscape | Aleks Totic was one of the original Mosaic engineers at the NCSA, responsible for the Mac version of Mosiac. They don’t call him “Mac Daddy” for nothing. He was then one of the 6 original programmers recruited by Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark to f | 3/16/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean7. (Ch 2.2) Bill Gates "Gets" The Internet | Microsoft was on top of the world at the dawn of the Internet Era… but like Jack Dawson in Titanic? Microsoft would pivot, and pivot hard, once it realized that the Internet was The Next Big Thing. This episode outlines how younger Microsoft employees | 3/13/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean6. Mosaic and Internet Explorer Engineer, Chris Wilson | Chris Wilson has been working on browser technology for the better part of two decades. A member of the original Mosaic team, he went on to work first at Spry (producing Internet in a Box) and then later at Microsoft, where he was a major developer of I | 3/10/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean5. Netscape and Mosaic Founding Engineer, Lou Montulli | An Interview With Netscape Founding Engineer Lou Montulli | 3/6/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean4. (Ch 2.1) Microsoft At The Dawn Of The Internet Era | Summary: Netscape has set the standard and taken the lead. But how long will it last? We take a step backwards in this episode and examine why Microsoft was so dominant at the beginning of the Internet Era. We ask the questions: Did Bill Gates... | 2/26/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean3. (Ch 1.3) Netscape's IPO As The Big Bang | Summary: Netscape launches and is a smashing success. Jim Barksdale officially comes on as CEO. Netscape fights off legal threats from the NCSA and the University of Illinois. Despite it’s young age and lack of profits, Netscape files to go... | 2/20/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean2. (Ch 1.2) The Creation of Netscape | Summary: Marc Andreessen heads out to Silicon Valley. He hooks up with startup legend Jim Clark. They decide to form a company, Netscape, to build upon Mosaic’s previous success. They “get the band back together” by recruiting most... | 2/19/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean1. (Ch 1.1) Mosaic - The "First" Web Browser | Chapter 1 - Netscape - The Internet Era's Big Bang | 2/11/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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