Summary: The history of Craig Newmark, craigslist and other odds and ends that didn’t make the book! Listen: Listen Right Here On Web Listen on …

Summary: John McCrea is a Zelig-like personality who pops up in so many of the narratives we’ve already covered: Apple. Netscape. Doing battle with Microsoft. …

Summary: This story has gone down in Silicon Valley lore as the ultimate cautionary tale. Digg was the earliest high flying startup in early social …

Summary: 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 …

Summary: Rosanne Siino has been on my list to talk to from day one of this podcast. As you know, I started by reaching out …

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 …

Summary: Claude Shannon was a mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as “the father of information theory.” In the pantheon of cool people who made …

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? …

Summary: Jason Kottke, of kottke.org fame, was one of the early bloggers, one of the first bloggers to go pro, and one of the few …

Summary: 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 …