Internet History Podcast
A History Of The Internet Era From Netscape To The iPad. A fully interactive history project outlining the people and technologies that made the Internet Era possible. Includes interviews with those involved.
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73. "Father" of the MP3, Karlheinz Brandenburg
This is the story of MP3, the technology that (revolutionized? ...
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.
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72. Owen Thomas Returns!
Summary: Owen Thomas is back on the show for another ...
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.
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71. Founder of Quote.com, Chris Cooper
Summary: Get ready for one of the most fascinating entrepreneurial ...
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...
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70. The Forgotten Story Of The Original IPhone Released In 1998
It turns out that almost exactly 9 years before Steve ...
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...
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69. Steve Yelvington Discusses Newspapers and the Early Web
Summary: Today we’re going to go a bit backwards in ...
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...
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68. Founder of When.com, Ted Barnett
Summary: So far in our project, we've mostly spoken to ...
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...
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67. Journalist Maggie Mahar Discusses the Dot-Com Bubble
Summary: Maggie Mahar is an award-winning journalist who has written ...
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...
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66. (Ch. 7.3) The Founding of eBay
...or, to be more strictly accurate, this episode covers the ...
...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.
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65. The "Book Club" Episode
Summary: Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The ...
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...
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64. Geocities Founder David Bohnett
Summary: We continue our survey of the pioneering social/community sites ...
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...
