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 …

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 …

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 …

John Wainwright Was Amazon’s First Ever Customer Amazon.com was actually founded all the way back in the summer of 1994. But unlike other dotcom-era startups …

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 …

  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 …

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 …

  No real reason to post this. Just thought it was cool. Click to enlarge. Found it here.  

On yesterdays ep. I thanked you for keeping us high in the iTunes lists. But I realized I hadn’t actually checked on that in a …

It’s an infamous story of Internet history as well as business lore, but in 1999, the search engine Excite.com—then running number two to the reigning champion …