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Internet History Podcast - From the Beginning
Hosted by Brian McCullough · EN
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 6, 202101:35:02Tap to summarizeOn 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.
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177. NandO.net with Fraser Van Asch - Sun, 19 Aug 2018
Dec 30, 202000:37:15Tap to summarizeNando.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 can give us some amazing insights into the transitions therein... or lack thereof. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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176. The Epic Fail of Digg V.4 With Will Larson - Mon, 06 Aug 2018
Dec 23, 202000:49:55Tap to summarizeThis 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 reason Reddit is Reddit today is because the Digg community fled their en-masse. Digg Version 4 has become a much cited horror story for when a redesign can be so disruptive it can kill a company. So, what’s the real story behind this urban legend? Today, we talk to Will Larson, who today is at Stripe, was a young engineer working on the launch of Digg version 4. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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175. How the Internet Came to Pakistan With Imran Haider - Sun, 22 Jul 2018
Dec 16, 202000:41:23Tap to summarizeToday, 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 analyzes the south asian tech scene at his blog, arkito.co. Today, he tells us how the digital revolution came to Pakistan, how it's still in the process of rolling out, what that has meant for Pakistani society and what the startup and tech scene IS in Pakistan. My thanks to Imran Haider for being a longtime listener to this show, and for being willing to contribute to the project, and please, check him out at arkito.co... it's Ben Thompson level analysis of the tech scene in the sub continent. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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174. Bringing the NYTimes and MSNBC Online With Lisa Napoli - Sun, 08 Jul 2018
Dec 9, 202001:05:59Tap to summarizeLisa 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 forgotten to history even by the New York Times. Then on to MSNBC, a crazy hybrid tech and media startup that I don’t think we’ve discussed much either. There’s just so many great stories here. Please enjoy this conversation with Lisa Napoli. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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173. Netscape's Rosanne Siino - Sun, 24 Jun 2018
Dec 2, 202001:01:44Tap to summarizeRosanne 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 documentary series currently airing on A&E in the US, The Untold Story of the 90s. So, I reached out, and we recoded this fantastic extended interview about all things Netscape and about the very birth of the Internet Era. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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HUGE Podcast Announcement - Sat, 16 Jun 2018
Nov 25, 202000:03:07Tap to summarizeHUGE Podcast Announcement! Details on how to pre-order the podcast book! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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172. How Politics Came to the Web With Karl Mattson - Sun, 10 Jun 2018
Nov 18, 202000:53:34Tap to summarizeToday 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 Clinton intern scandal. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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171. Claude Shannon, Father of Information Theory - Sun, 27 May 2018
Nov 11, 202000:59:57Tap to summarizeClaude 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 Shannon Invented the Information Age. Especially you software engineers out there, if you don’t know who Claude Shannon was, get educated. You owe your livelihood to this man.Buy the book! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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170. The Godfather of Streaming Music, Robert Reid - Sun, 13 May 2018
Nov 4, 202001:29:15Tap to summarizeSummary: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 the Future of Business. It was one of the first books to come out about the history of the web era. It was published in 1997, I think. I read it in college. I re-read it maybe 6-7 seven years ago and it helped inspire me to start this podcast. Those first interviews I launched the podcast with? The Netscape guys? Jon Mittelhauser? Alex Totic? I read about them in this book and I straight up cold-emailed them. So you're going to get a fascinating fly-on-the-wall account of early Netscape, early Yahoo, all sorts of companies we've talked about.Robert continues to be an accomplished author.Buy his books:After OnYear ZeroAnd listen to his exceptional podcast, also called After On. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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