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The History of Slate With Julia Turner and Jacob Weisberg

Summary I missed it (I should really be keeping a calendar of these things) but Slate.com celebrated its 20th anniversary last month. If you’ll recall, …

Co-Founder of Feed Magazine, Stefanie Syman

Summary If you’ll remember in Episode 32, we explored the early digital media startups like Salon, Slate, Suck, Pathfinder, etc. One site that was mentioned, …

Analysis Episode 4, “Clutching Pearls” With Chris Higgins

Summary: Chris Higgins is back! In this very fun episode we talk about Windows 95, command line computing, who is the Microsoft of tech today …

On the 20th Birthday of the MP3, An Interview With The “Father” of the MP3, Karlheinz Brandenburg

Twenty years ago today, this email made the rounds among the dozens of engineers and researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS in Germany: Date: …

Owen Thomas Returns!

Summary: Owen Thomas is back on the show for another analysis episode, helping us establish the context for the dot-com era. You can listen to his previous …

Chapter 7, Part 2 – Amazon’s Dominance of eCommerce

Summary: It’s part two of our Amazon founding story. How did Amazon come to completely dominate e-commerce? How did Jeff Bezos’ “Get Big Fast” strategy …

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, …

Did Al Gore Really Invent The Internet?

The Truth About Al Gore Inventing The Internet As you know, often on this podcast, I run across issues or tidbits from the past that …

On The 20th Anniversary, An Oral History of the Web’s First Banner Ads

This Is The’s World’s First Banner Ad: This is almost the exact size, almost the exact resolution, exact ad. Of course, it’s not *technically* the …