Internet History Podcast

A History of the Internet Era from Netscape to the iPad

189. A Legal History of the Web Era With Richard Chapo 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 we talked about disruption and piracy and filesharing and all that stuff? So, I spoke to Richard Chapo, who has been doing Internet Law since the web went mainstream. /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/8590232

188. TheGlobe.com Story With Stephan Paternot Part III 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 life, how you reinvent yourself, re-find you entrepreneurial spirit... I feel like there are so many lessons in these three episodes. Lessons for entrepreneurs today. Lesson for... I dunno. People in the crypto space? /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/8407343

187. TheGlobe.com w/Stephan Paternot Part 2 01/06/2019

187. TheGlobe.com w/Stephan Paternot Part 2 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 was going to make this the last episode, but as I was editing this, I realized that after we get done with this story, Stephan talks a lot about what happens after... what happens after you've been on a crazy ride like this. How you have to reinvent yourself, and your life, and your career. /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/8152943

186. TheGlobe.com Story with Stephan Paternot 12/24/2018

186. TheGlobe.com Story with Stephan Paternot I think TheGlobe.com was the quintessential dot-com company. We spoke to one of the cofounders previously, Todd Krizelman. I finally got to talk to the other founder of TheGlobe, Stephan Paternot. THIS the dot-com era story I’ve been looking for for years. It’s also the story of probably the most important pioneer of social media before there was even a term for such a thing. Stephan just re-released his book, A Very Public Offering: The Story of theglobe.com and the First Internet Revolution. /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/8030489

185. Ripple's David Schwartz 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 on this show for years? What is Ripple? How is it unique in the crypto ecosystem? What is it trying to do for the world? All of this… and yes, why is crypto so tribal… and yes… where is the crypto space even at in this moment in time (December 9th, 2018, btw, for poste /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/7856345

184. GV's Ken Norton 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 also early at JotSpot which became Google sites, was a product manager at Yahoo, was an early employee at CNET and was CTO of Snap, a company probably none of you have ever heard of but I’ve been dying to talk about for years. No. Not snapchat. The original Snap. The dotcom era snap. /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/7676375

183. Selling the First Facebook Ads, With Matt Britton 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. /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/7517645

Emergency Podcast Announcement 11/02/2018

Emergency Podcast Announcement Emergency Podcast Announcement /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/7418162

182. Google's Matt Cutts @mattcutts 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 this podcast. He was the head of Google's web spam team for nearly 15 years. He's also the current head of the USDS, so if you what to know what YOU can do for your country—if you're in technology and you want to make the government work better—listen to this episode! /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/7344797

181. (Ch. 7.5) The Story of craigslist 10/13/2018

181. (Ch. 7.5) The Story of craigslist SUMMARY: /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/7173635

180. Part 2 With John McCrea 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... /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/7109193

179. On Silicon Graphics with John McCrea (Pt. 1) 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 for a while now, to really rejuvenate that company’s reputation, historically. For reasons that will be obvious when you listen. /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/7052940

178. On Google's 20th Birthday - The History of Google 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! /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/6996224

177. NandO.net with Fraser Van Asch 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 key players at The News & Observer (thus, "NandO") who brought the project to life, he is another person who has straddled the media industry between the print and digital eras and can give us some amazing insights into the transitions therein... or lack thereof. /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/6943908

176. The Epic Fail of Digg V.4 With Will Larson 08/06/2018

176. The Epic Fail of Digg V.4 With Will Larson Digg was the earliest high flying startup in early social media. But then, other startups started to steal the limelight. Digg tried to keep up by launching Digg version 4. And… users hate it. Many people feel that the reason Reddit is Reddit today is because the Digg community fled their en-masse. Digg Version 4 has become legendary as a redesign so disruptive it can kill a company. So, what’s the real story? Today, we talk to Will Larson, who was a young engineer working on the launch of Digg version /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/6892736

175. How the Internet Came to Pakistan With Imran Haider 07/22/2018

175. How the Internet Came to Pakistan With Imran Haider On this episode we're going to look at how the Internet came to—and is still in the process of coming to—Pakistan. Imran Haider is a listener to the show, works in the tech industry, and analyzes the south asian tech scene at his blog, arkito.co. Today, he tells us how the digital revolution came to Pakistan, how it's still in the process of rolling out. /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/6838398

174. Bringing the NYTimes and MSNBC Online With Lisa Napoli 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 and competitor to AOL and Prodigy that I don’t think we’ve covered much here before. And then she helped bring the NYTimes online with CyberTimes, which, as she said, is forgotten to history even by the New York Times. Then on to MSNBC, a crazy hybrid tech and media startup that I don’t think we’ve d /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/6786363

173. Netscape's Rosanne Siino 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. She saw it all, she can give us her take on both the engineering side and the management side, since she was uniquely able to observe both. Rosanne and I were recently on a documentary series currently airing on A&E in the US, The Untold Story of the 90s. So, I reached out, and we recoded this fant /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/6738713

HUGE Podcast Announcement 06/16/2018

HUGE Podcast Announcement HUGE Podcast Announcement! Details on how to pre-order the podcast book! /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/6711466

172. How Politics Came to the Web With Karl Mattson 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 web was a completely new thing. He then moved to AOL, helped run their news channels and has some amazing historical details about he era, especially the Clinton intern scandal. /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/6688123

171. Claude Shannon, Father of Information Theory 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 to the authors of a great biography of the man called A Mind At Play, How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age. Especially you software engineers out there, if you don’t know who Claude Shannon was, get educated. You owe your livelihood to this man. /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/6638402

170. The Godfather of Streaming Music, Robert Reid 05/13/2018

170. The Godfather of Streaming Music, Robert Reid Summary: /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/6588471

169. Kottke.org's Jason Kottke, @jkottke 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? If you’ve never heard of it, you can thank me later. This episode examines what it means to be a publisher on the web for 20 years as well as the discipline required to find cool stuff on the web every single day (almost). /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/6535746

168. The History of Java With Todd Sundsted 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. So, that’s why I was thrilled to sit down with Todd Sundsted, who is a developer who has been working with Java for more than 20 years. Todd walks us through the history of Java and why it is so important to the web’s general evolution. /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/6483307

167. NYTimes Tech Columnist, Farhad Manjoo @fmanjoo 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, but of course, we get into his whole career and his unique vantage point and views on the world of tech. /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/6432050

166. Amazon, Hulu and Oculus with Eugene Wei 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, so we get some important context especially on the future of VR and the like. But the most fascinating stories you'll hear will be about Amazon, where Eugene was the first analyst in the strategic planning department. As you'll hear, Eugene had a unique perspective on Amazon's early /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/6376119

165. Claire L. Evans, Author of Broad Band- The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet 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. Of special note, considering our 90s-heavy focus on this podcast, the book includes the stories of Word.com, which was a competitor to Feed.com (which we’ve previously covered) and Women.com which was a competitor to Ivillage (which, again, we’ve spoke at length about). /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/6326553

164. How the Web Came to Germany, With Thomas Ganter 02/19/2018

164. How the Web Came to Germany, With Thomas Ganter Listener Thomas Ganter gives us a first person, anecdotal account of how the web came to Germany in the 1990s. /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/6275865

163. The History of Online Video with JibJab's Gregg Spiridellis 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 Elf Yourself, Nasty Santa and This Land Is Your Land. JibJab has survived the dotcom bust, the coming of broadband, the coming of YouTube, the coming of social media and the mobile internet. /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/6225636

162. Venrock's David Pakman on Apple's Music Group, N2K, eMusic and Dollar Shave Club 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 Group, his role in facilitating the first digital sales of music online at dotcom-era companies N2K and MyPlay, and competing directly against iTunes when he was at eMusic. As a bonus, he gives us some background on the more recent founding story of Dollar Shave Club. /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/6172181

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