Researching The Next Episode…
On a lovely spring day in Brooklyn, I’m in the office researching the next episode… Can anyone think of a major book on the Internet …
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May 14, 2014 Chapter 2, Supplemental 1 – An Interview With Internet Explorer Team Member, Hadi Partovi
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May 9, 2014 Chapter 4, Part 1 – The Early Search Engines And Yahoo
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April 25, 2014 Chapter 3, Supplemental 1 – The Forgotten Online Pioneer, Bill von Meister
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April 17, 2014 Chapter 4, Supplemental 1 – An Interview With Craig Kanarick, Co-Designer of the World’s First Banner Ad and Co-Founder of Razorfish
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April 11, 2014 Chapter 3, Part 2 – The Rise of AOL
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Chapter 3, Part 2 – The Rise of AOL
Summary: 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 …
Well, this is fun…
Also made TheVerge, Time.com, re/code, SiliconBeat and a bunch more. Thanks to @gaberivera who has always been kind to me. Next time you’re in NYC, Gabe… …
On The 20th Anniversary – An Oral History of Netscape’s Founding
It Was 20 Years Ago Today… On April 4th, 1994, Mosaic Communications Corporation was officially incorporated as a going concern. If you don’t recognize the …
Chapter 3, Part 1 – CompuServe, Prodigy, AOL And The Early Online Services
Summary: We take a step back to look at the early online services: CompuServe, Delphi, GEine, the WELL and especially, early AOL. Why? Well, because …
Chapter 1, Supplemental 5 – An Interview With Rob McCool
Summary: Rob McCool is another of the core group of original Mosaic programmers who went on to found Netscape. Unlike a lot of the others …
Office On iOS… The Simple Take
As we’ve covered in earlier episodes… Microsoft once was a company that simply wanted to put the software it wrote on every computing device that …
Chapter 1, Supplemental 4 – An Interview With Jon Mittelhauser
Summary: Jon Mittelhauser is another of the core group of original Mosaic programmers who went on to found Netscape. Jon worked on the Windows versions …
Chapter 1, Supplemental 3 – An Interview With Aleks Totic
Summary: Aleks Totic was one of the original Mosaic engineers at the NCSA, responsible for the Mac version of Mosaic. They don’t call him “Mac …
Chapter 2, Part 2 – Bill Gates “Gets” The Internet
Summary: Microsoft was on top of the world at the dawn of the Internet Era… but like Jack Dawson in Titanic? Microsoft would pivot, and …