Internet History Podcast - From the Beginning

Jan 06 2021 10 ep. 55 mins 52
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A History of the Internet Era from Netscape to the iPad

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178. On Google's 20th Birthday - The History of Google - Sat, 01 Sep 2018

Jan 06 2021 95 mins  
On Google's 20th Birthday (September 4th) a re-cutting and re-airing of my comprehensive history of Google, from it's inception through its IPO. Happy Birthday, Google!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

177. NandO.net with Fraser Van Asch - Sun, 19 Aug 2018

Dec 30 2020 37 mins  
Nando.net was not only a very early experiment in bringing journalism to the web, it was also one of those local ISP's that flowered in the era of the early 1990s. Fraser Von Asch was not only one of the key players at The News & Observer (thus, "NandO") who brought the project to life, he is another person who has straddled the media industry between the print and digital eras and

176. The Epic Fail of Digg V.4 With Will Larson - Mon, 06 Aug 2018

Dec 23 2020 49 mins  
This story has gone down in Silicon Valley lore as the ultimate cautionary tale. Digg was the earliest high flying startup in early social media. But then, other startups like Facebook and Twitter started to steal the limelight. So Digg tried to keep up by launching the infamous Digg version 4. And… it’s a disaster. Users hate it. So much so, that many people feel that the reas

175. How the Internet Came to Pakistan With Imran Haider - Sun, 22 Jul 2018

Dec 16 2020 41 mins  
Today, we're going to continue our occasional project of getting oral histories and personal anecdotes about how, exactly, the Internet and the web came to various places around the world. On this episode we're going to look at how the Internet came to—and is still in the process of coming to—Pakistan. Imran Haider is a listener to the show, works in the tech industry, and anal

174. Bringing the NYTimes and MSNBC Online With Lisa Napoli - Sun, 08 Jul 2018

Dec 09 2020 65 mins  
Lisa Napoli got a job straight out of college at CNN in its earliest days, which is a crazy startup story in it’s own right. But then she worked for a time at Delphi, which was an early online service and competitor to AOL and Prodigy that I don’t think we’ve covered much here before. And then she helped bring the NYTimes online with CyberTimes, which, as she said, is forgott

173. Netscape's Rosanne Siino - Sun, 24 Jun 2018

Dec 02 2020 61 mins  
Rosanne Siino has been on my list to talk to from day one of this podcast. As you know, I started by reaching out to Netscape folks and Rosanne was the head of communications for that very first dotcom company. She saw it all, she can give us her take on both the engineering side and the management side, since she was uniquely able to observe both. Rosanne and I were recently on a

HUGE Podcast Announcement - Sat, 16 Jun 2018

Nov 25 2020 3 mins  
HUGE Podcast Announcement! Details on how to pre-order the podcast book!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

172. How Politics Came to the Web With Karl Mattson - Sun, 10 Jun 2018

Nov 18 2020 53 mins  
Today we're going to go back to take a look at early journalism on the web. Karl Mattson helped launched one of the first political news websites, ElectionLine. He helped cover the 1996 election when covering an election on the web was a completely new thing. He then moved to AOL, helped run their news channels and has some amazing historical details about he era, especially the Cl

171. Claude Shannon, Father of Information Theory - Sun, 27 May 2018

Nov 11 2020 59 mins  
Claude Shannon was a mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory." In the pantheon of cool people who made the modern information era possible, he’s right up there. Today, we’re going to talk about Shannon’s life with Jimmy Sony and Rob Goodman, authors of a great biography of the man called A Mind At Play, How Claude Shann

170. The Godfather of Streaming Music, Robert Reid - Sun, 13 May 2018

Nov 04 2020 89 mins  
Summary: Robert Reid, the founder of Rhapsody, can be considered the Godfather (founding father?) of the streaming music reality we now live in. But guess what? That's only half of this episode! Because it turns out, Robert is the author of a book that was probably one of the biggest reasons I started doing this podcast. The book was Architects of the Web, 1000 Days that Built