Internet History Podcast

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 …

Summary: Today, a man who needs no introduction: New York Times Technology Columnist Farhad Manjoo. This episode was recorded about two months or so ago, …

Summary: No joke, this is one of my favorite episodes we’ve ever done. Eugene Wei was an early employee at Hulu, so we get some …

Summary: Claire Evans is the author of the new book: Broad Band The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet. This is the …

Summary: Gregg Spiridellis has been making things go viral on the web since before the term VIRAL was even a thing. His company, JibJab has …

Summary: David Pakman is a well respected venture capitalist at Venrock, but also a lifelong musician and music fan. Earlier in his career he played …

Summary: It gets my goat that these days, the history of ecommerce begins and ends with Amazon. There were so many companies and big ideas …

Summary: Plato was an online and interactive learning computer system developed in the 1960s at the University of Illinois. But in the early 1970s, Plato …

Summary: Bob Stein was the founder of Voyager, publisher of the first consumer CDROM titles, and, far and away the leader of the CDROM industry …

Summary: You might know him as Rob Malda, or you might know him as CmdrTaco, but he was the founder of the great geek social …