Internet History Podcast

A History of the Internet Era from Netscape to the iPad

200. Professional Blogging Pioneer Josh Marshall 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, but also the story of modern media over the last 20 years of digital disruption. /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/10514282

199. Is Tech Making Us- Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid? 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, tries to look at this question from a historical perspective. Is it really different this time? But more importantly... to what degree has technological change impacted how we think of things, and vice-versa. My thanks to the authors, Luke Fernandez and Susan J. Matt. /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/10333961

198. Inventor of the Hashtag, Chris Messina 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. Founded BarCamp where so much Web 2.0 goodness happened and was launched. Cofounded the first co-working space in San Francisco. Helped Google try to grok social with Google+. Oh, and that hashtag business. /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/10165274

197. The Internet Bookshop Story With the Tech Business History Podcast 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 documentary producer. In the first series of his podcast, he’s exploring the dot com boom in the UK with some of the people he met when he was filming for the BBC back in 1999. It’s a fantastic show that I’ve fallen in love with, so what I want to do is play you an episode from his show that was amazing. It’s exactly the sort of interview I wish I had gotten for this show: In the episode we’re going to hear, he talks to Darryl Mattocks, the founder of a very early dot com called The Internet Bookshop. Yes, they were selling books on the internet before Jeff Bezos did. But I’ll let Charles introduce his guest – in this episode of TBH – Tech Business History. And if you like it, do catch up with the other episodes on iTunes or from your podcast provider /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/10002509

196. Google, Twitter and More With Karen Wickre 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 Karen knows everyone because she’s popped up Zelig-like in a bunch of interesting places over the course of tech history over the last 30 years or so. Early tech journalism. Planet Out. Early Google employee. Early blogger. Early tweeter. Editorial Director at Twitter. Karen has a great book out that you should read, explaining how to do what she does so successfully, called . /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/9833801

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott 05/04/2019

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 at AdMob; is credited by some people by saving LinkedIn from technical rot; and now, today, oversees Microsoft's efforts in AI, VR/AR all the future things. Fantastic conversation. His podcast is: /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/9653177

194. The History of the ISP Industry With Sonic's Dane Jasper 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. Today we talk to Sonic founder Dane Jasper, who can not only give us the history of the industry, but the present day as well, as Sonic is still a thriving and important independent ISP. /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/9467510

193. The Home Page Film With Doug Block 04/06/2019

193. The Home Page Film With Doug Block 20 years ago, the acclaimed documentarian 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 a moment in time, the web going mainstream, the beginnings of the dotcom bubble, the early days of Wired, Hotwired and Suck and also so many of the things I ask people about on here regularly. How people learned to live online, to begin to port all of modern life over to the digital. Well, Home Page is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a re-release, and starting this week, you can watch it yourself everywhere films are gettable, . Today we speak to Doug Block about this amazing movie that I think is one of the best historical records of the era we have been interrogating for nearly 5 years on this podcast. Go watch Home Page yourself, and check out The D-word, Doug’s community for documentarians, at . /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/9294962

Mon. 03/25 - Apple Goes Hollywood! 03/25/2019

Mon. 03/25 - Apple Goes Hollywood! The Apple event broken down piece by piece, YouTube wants out of the streaming video wars, Nintendo is working on two new Switch devices, is consolidation finally coming to the digital media space, and why you should know the name Transsion. Sponsors: Links: (The Verge) (TechCrunch) (The Verge) (Bloomberg) (WSJ) (Business Insider) (South China Morning Post) /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/9136790

192. Hulu's Founding and Digital Design With Dan Maccarone 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 birth of Hulu, which I don't think has really been covered anywhere before. /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/9114026

191. Bringing The WSJ Online With Rich Jaroslovsky Part 2 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. /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/8946419

190. Bringing The WSJ Online With Rich Jaroslovsky 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 embracing the internet. It’s worth doing that because they embraced a different model from basically day one. Almost alone among the web media pioneers, the Journal went the subscription route. So, we’re going to talk to Rich Jaroslovksy, who headed the team that brought the Journal online, to see why they went that route, to learn about the path to the web and much more. /episode/index/show/internethistorypodcast/id/8766935

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

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