Internet History Podcast

Internet History Podcast episodes:

• 10.19.2021

  203. Shirish Nadkarni On Microsoft, Hotmail, MSN and Blackberry Internet Email

  Serial entrepreneur Shirish Nadkarni came to the U.S. as a teenager with $25 in his pocket. After graduating from Harvard Business School, he worked at Microsoft where he engineered the $400 million acquisition of Hotmail and launched MSN.com, the world’s...

  
• 10.31.2020

  (Feed Drop) Command Line Heroes

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• 10.23.2020

  202. The del.icio.us Story With Joshua Schachter

  Joshua Schachter, founder of del.icio.us, is someone I’ve wanted to talk to from the very first day of this podcast. As we’ll discuss, del.icio.us was such a standard bearer of the web 2.0 era. Of user generated content. Of sharing...

  
• 08.11.2019

  201. The History of Audible With Angelika Fuellemann

  Angelika Fuellemann is a designer who worked early on with BookSense.com, then got hired by Audible early on, so this is the early story of Audible. It’s funny… audio, streaming music, podcasts, audiobooks, it seems so obvious now, but it...

  
• 07.14.2019

  200. Professional Blogging Pioneer Josh Marshall

  Josh Marshall is one of the key people who brought blogging into the realm of serious, award winning and respectable journalism. The story of his blog/publication, Talking Points Memo, or TPM is the story of blogging becoming legit and serious,...

  
• 07.01.2019

  199. Is Tech Making Us- Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid?

  Is technology really rotting our brains, destroying our society... or is that what everyone has always worried about with every technological advance, going back to tv, or telephones, or even writing letters? The new book, Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid: Changing...

  
• 06.16.2019

  198. Inventor of the Hashtag, Chris Messina

  Well, as we say in this episode, he’ll always be known as the inventor of the hashtag, but Chris Messina has been central to so many things in tech over the last 20 years or so. Helped Mozilla launch Firefox....

  
• 06.02.2019

  197. The Internet Bookshop Story With the Tech Business History Podcast

  I’ve said before I wish I could cover technology history beyond just North America, more… Well, Charles Miller has started a great podcast in Britain called Tech Business History. Charles used to report on the tech business as a BBC...

  
• 05.18.2019

  196. Google, Twitter and More With Karen Wickre

  Everyone knows Karen Wickre, because she’s one of those classic connectors. Once we finally got in touch, I wasn’t surprised to learn we knew about half a dozen of the same people though we had never remotely crossed paths. But...

  
• 05.04.2019

  195. Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott

  Kevin Scott is the current Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft. We talk about his entire career, how being an academic seemed to be his path before he transformed the ads system at Google. Then he revolutionized the entire advertising industry...

  
• 04.20.2019

  194. The History of the ISP Industry With Sonic's Dane Jasper

  Today we continue my efforts to preserve the history of the ISP industry. Today it feels like the Internet is simply all around us all the time, but there are amazing entrepreneurial stories about how that crucial infrastructure was laid....

  
• 04.06.2019

  193. The Home Page Film With Doug Block

  20 years ago, the acclaimed documentarian Doug Block released a landmark film, Home Page. Doug’s documentary accidentally chronicled the birth of blogging, featuring several people we’ve talked to on this very show, including Justin Hall. But the documentary also captured...

  
• 03.23.2019

  192. Hulu's Founding and Digital Design With Dan Maccarone

  Dan Maccarone is a digital design veteran, websites, products, strategy. He's got some amazing stories about the dotcom bubble, about the aftermath, and the rise of Web 2.0. He shares some unique design lessons but also, the story of the...

  
• 03.10.2019

  191. Bringing The WSJ Online With Rich Jaroslovsky Part 2

  Part two of the WSJ's online adventures intersect with several other stories we've covered on here over the years. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

  
• 02.25.2019

  190. Bringing The WSJ Online With Rich Jaroslovsky

  We’ve had a couple of people come on here to discuss how the New York Times got online, but the spiritual yin to their yang is the Wall Street Journal and we haven’t done enough to explore their path to...

  
• 02.10.2019

  189. A Legal History of the Web Era With Richard Chapo

  It’s bothered me for a while that over the 5 years or so of this podcast, we haven’t focused very much on some corners of the history. For example… the legal side? Copyright law? Intellectual property law? How much have...

  
• 01.26.2019

  188. TheGlobe.com Story With Stephan Paternot Part III

  Part three of our epic conversation with Stephan Paternot. Here's what happens when you've been through the wringer. When you've been to the top of the rollercoaster and also down to the bottom. Here's how you take stock of your...

  
• 01.06.2019

  187. TheGlobe.com Story with Stephan Paternot Part II

  Ok, part 2 of the Stephan Paternot mega-episode right now. This is where we get into the meat of it, the good stuff, the whole crazy roller coaster ride of being the hottest startup of the dotcom era. And I...

  
• 12.24.2018

  186. TheGlobe.com Story with Stephan Paternot

  I said in the book, I think TheGlobe.com was the quintessential dot-com company. We spoke to one of the cofounders previously, Todd Krizelman. Todd was great, but he was time constrained and he didn’t quite get as personal about the...

  
• 12.10.2018

  185. Ripple's David Schwartz

  David Schwartz is the Chief Technology Officer at Ripple, the company behind the cryptocurrency XRP. What is it like to start, build and build out a crypto startup? Is it different than the web and internet startups that we’ve covered...

  
• 11.25.2018

  184. GV's Ken Norton

  Ken Norton is a partner at GV, Alphabets venture capital arm, but before that, he was a product manager at Google, where he led the development of products like Google Docs, Google Calendar and Google Mobile Maps. But he was...

  
• 11.11.2018

  183. Selling the First Facebook Ads, With Matt Britton

  Matt Britton not only sold the first ads to and for Facebook, way back in 2004, he gives us a really insightful and, frankly, unbiased look at what Facebook was like as a company in its very earliest days. See Privacy...

  
• 11.02.2018

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• 10.28.2018

  182. Google's Matt Cutts @mattcutts

  I figure most of you should know who Matt Cutts is, but if you don't, let's just leave it at this: he's about to give you the best, most behind-the-scenes oral history of early Google we've gotten so far on...

  
• 10.13.2018

  181. (Ch. 7.5) The Story of craigslist

  SUMMARY: The history of Craig Newmark, craigslist and other odds and ends that didn’t make the book! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

  
• 09.30.2018

  180. Part 2 With John McCrea

  Simple enough: Part 2 with John McCrea. More on SGI, more on doing battle with Microsoft in the 90s. And... interesting stuff on VR and the future... See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

  
• 09.17.2018

  179. On Silicon Graphics with John McCrea (Pt. 1)

  John McCrea is a Zelig-like personality who pops up in so many of the narratives we've already covered: Apple. Netscape. Doing battle with Microsoft. This is part one, mostly about Silicon Graphics, a company I had been thinking about doing an episode on...

  
• 09.01.2018

  178. On Google's 20th Birthday - The History of Google

  On Google's 20th Birthday (September 4th) a re-cutting and re-airing of my comprehensive history of Google, from it's inception through its IPO. Happy Birthday, Google! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

  
• 08.19.2018

  177. NandO.net with Fraser Van Asch

  Nando.net was not only a very early experiment in bringing journalism to the web, it was also one of those local ISP's that flowered in the era of the early 1990s. Fraser Von Asch was not only one of the...

  
• 08.06.2018

  176. The Epic Fail of Digg V.4 With Will Larson

  This story has gone down in Silicon Valley lore as the ultimate cautionary tale. Digg was the earliest high flying startup in early social media. But then, other startups like Facebook and Twitter started to steal the limelight. So Digg...

  
• 07.22.2018

  175. How the Internet Came to Pakistan With Imran Haider

  Today, we're going to continue our occasional project of getting oral histories and personal anecdotes about how, exactly, the Internet and the web came to various places around the world. On this episode we're going to look at how the...

  
• 07.08.2018

  174. Bringing the NYTimes and MSNBC Online With Lisa Napoli

  Lisa Napoli got a job straight out of college at CNN in its earliest days, which is a crazy startup story in it’s own right. But then she worked for a time at Delphi, which was an early online service...

  
• 06.24.2018

  173. Netscape's Rosanne Siino

  Rosanne Siino has been on my list to talk to from day one of this podcast. As you know, I started by reaching out to Netscape folks and Rosanne was the head of communications for that very first dotcom company....

  
• 06.16.2018

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• 06.10.2018

  172. How Politics Came to the Web With Karl Mattson

  Today we're going to go back to take a look at early journalism on the web. Karl Mattson helped launched one of the first political news websites, ElectionLine. He helped cover the 1996 election when covering an election on the...

  
• 05.27.2018

  171. Claude Shannon, Father of Information Theory

  Claude Shannon was a mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory." In the pantheon of cool people who made the modern information era possible, he’s right up there. Today, we’re going to talk about Shannon’s...

  
• 05.13.2018

  170. The Godfather of Streaming Music, Robert Reid

  Summary: Robert Reid, the founder of Rhapsody, can be considered the Godfather (founding father?) of the streaming music reality we now live in. But guess what? That's only half of this episode! Because it turns out, Robert is the author of a...

  
• 04.29.2018

  169. Kottke.org's Jason Kottke, @jkottke

  Jason Kottke, of kottke.org fame, was one of the early bloggers, one of the first bloggers to go pro, and one of the few solo bloggers still going. If you know Kottke.org, then you love it. How could you not?...

  
• 04.15.2018

  168. The History of Java With Todd Sundsted

  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 Java. The argument can be made that Java helped the web evolve into what it’s become....

  
• 04.01.2018

  167. NYTimes Tech Columnist, Farhad Manjoo @fmanjoo

  Today, a man who needs no introduction: New York Times Technology Columnist Farhad Manjoo. This episode was recorded about two months or so ago, so we talk about the book leave Farhad is on that he only recently made public,...

  
• 03.17.2018

  166. Amazon, Hulu and Oculus with Eugene Wei

  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 details on that company for the first time, and he also worked at Flipboard and Oculus,...

  
• 03.04.2018

  165. Claire L. Evans, Author of Broad Band- The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet

  Claire Evans is the author of the new book: Broad Band The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet. This is the best tech history book I’ve read in a while and you know I read them all....

  
• 02.19.2018

  164. How the Web Came to Germany, With Thomas Ganter

  Podcast listener Thomas Ganter gives us a first person, anecdotal account of how the web came to Germany in the 1990s. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

  
• 02.05.2018

  163. The History of Online Video with JibJab's Gregg Spiridellis

  Gregg Spiridellis has been making things go viral on the web since before the term VIRAL was even a thing. His company, JibJab has been producing web videos since the dialup dotcom era, producing hits you might remember such as...

  
• 01.21.2018

  162. Venrock's David Pakman on Apple's Music Group, N2K, eMusic and Dollar Shave Club

  David Pakman is a well respected venture capitalist at Venrock, but also a lifelong musician and music fan. Earlier in his career he played a significant role in bringing music to the web. David tells us about cofounding Apple’s Music...

  
• 01.08.2018

  161. Jeff Bussgang on Open Market and early eCommerce

  It gets my goat that these days, the history of ecommerce begins and ends with Amazon. There were so many companies and big ideas that got us where we are today, and one of the most important companies was Open...

  
• 12.18.2017

  160. Growing Up With The Web With Desiree Garcia @thedezzie

  An exploration of what it was like to come of age in the early web era. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

  
• 12.11.2017

  159. The Forgotten Story of PLATO, with Brian Dear

  Plato was an online and interactive learning computer system developed in the 1960s at the University of Illinois. But in the early 1970s, Plato got truly networked, and the users took over. Plato had already pioneered such things as touch...

  
• 11.27.2017

  158. Bob Stein of Voyager and The Criterion Collection

  Bob Stein was the founder of Voyager, publisher of the first consumer CDROM titles, and, far and away the leader of the CDROM industry in the late 1980s and early 90s. Bob was also one of the founders of the...

  
• 11.12.2017

  157. Rob Malda (@cmdrtaco) on SlashDot and Social Media

  You might know him as Rob Malda, or you might know him as CmdrTaco, but he was the founder of the great geek social website Slashdot. Slashdot recently turned 20 years old, Rob commemorated this in a great Medium post,...