W. Joseph Campbell and the Watershed Year that Was 1995
Summary: W. Joseph Campbell is a Professor in the School of Communication at American University. He is the author of six nonfiction books, including Getting …
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January 4, 2015 Chapter 6 – A History of Internet Porn
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December 15, 2014 Chapter 4, Supplemental 8 – Excite Co-Founder Ryan McIntyre
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December 8, 2014 The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, Co-Founder of Akamai Technologies
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December 1, 2014 Chapter 4, Supplemental 8 – Danny Sullivan Talks Search Engine History and the Future of Search
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November 23, 2014 Did Al Gore Really Invent The Internet?
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Chapter 7, Supplemental 5 – CDNow CEO Mike Krupit
Summary: Michael Krupit first joined CDNow as the Chief Technology officer. He soon took over COO duties, and eventually rose to become CEO of the entire …
On the 20th Anniversary – The History of Yahoo’s Founding
Yahoo was officially incorporated on March 2nd, 1995. This is a partial transcript of several episodes of the Internet History Podcast, including an oral history …
Chapter 7, Supplemental 4 – Gary Kremen, Founder of Match.com
Summary: Gary Kremen is another early internet legend. Kremen was one of the first people to recognize the opportunity that the Internet presented in terms …
Chapter 7, Part 1 – E-Commerce And the Birth of Amazon.com
Summary: Finally, the long-promised foray into e-commerce, starting with… not the first… but practically the first… player in the space… and ironically enough, the 800 …
Chapter 7, Supplemental 3 – Catalog Manager Glenn Fleishman Discusses Amazon’s Early Days
Summary: You may know Glenn Fleishman from a bunch of things. He has written for Wired, Fortune, Popular Science, The New York Times, and PCWorld, …
Amazon’s Office Layout Circa 1996?
Here’s a fun little nugget. It’s from Erica Jorgensen, who was the Health Books editor at Amazon. This is a neat tie-in to recent …
Requiem For Radio Shack
So, RadioShack is dead, huh? You might say, who cares? Probably little better (different?) than a Sprint store anyway, right? Before there were hackers who …
Amazon’s Technical Co-Founder and Employee #1, Shel Kaphan
Summary: Shel Kaphan was the very first person hired by Jeff Bezos to launch Amazon.com. A lot of people consider Shel to be a co-founder …
Chapter 4, Supplemental 9 – Lycos Founder and CEO Bob Davis
Summary: Bob Davis was not only the founder of the search engine/web portal known as Lycos, he was also the CEO, first employee, and for …