Steve Yelvington Discusses Newspapers and the Early Web
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. …
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March 29, 2015 Chapter 8, Supplemental 1 – Robert Levitan of iVillage and Flooz
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March 16, 2015 Chapter 4, Supplemental 10 – Infoseek Founder (and inventor of the optical mouse) Steve Kirsch
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March 9, 2015 W. Joseph Campbell and the Watershed Year that Was 1995
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March 2, 2015 Chapter 7, Supplemental 5 – CDNow CEO Mike Krupit
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March 1, 2015 On the 20th Anniversary – The History of Yahoo’s Founding
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How Teens Spent Time On The Web In 1999
More data goodness from my deep dives into The Industry Standard’s hard copy archives. In 1999, Jupiter Communications estimated there were only about 8 million …
Nostalgia For Dot-Com Era Valuations?
Was in the library today doing research for upcoming episodes. Was going through the entire print run of Industry Standard magazine, page by page. Stumbled …
Ted Barnett, Founder of When.com
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 …
Is There A Tool That Triggers A Phone Alert Via RSS?
I’m waiting feverishly for the latest Ask the Maester column to go live on Grantland. Sooo… so many questions about that last episode and the …
Journalist Maggie Mahar Discusses the Dot-Com “Bubble”
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 …
Chapter 7, Part 3 – The Founding of eBay
Summary: Or, to be more strictly accurate, this episode covers the founding of AuctionWeb, the site that would become eBay. How Pierre Omidyar founded a …
The “Book Club” Episode
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 …
David Bohnett, Founder of Geocities
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 …
TheGlobe Co-Founder Todd Krizelman
Summary: One of the biggest names of the dot-com era was TheGlobe.com. It had one of the most successful and storied IPO’s of its day, …