The Forgotten Story of PLATO, with Brian Dear
Summary: Plato was an online and interactive learning computer system developed in the 1960s at the University of Illinois. But in the early 1970s, Plato …
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August 8, 2016 Joel Johnson on Gawker and the Rise of Professional Blogging
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July 31, 2016 Inventor of the First Digital Camera, Steven Sasson
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June 12, 2016 Hunter Walk Talks Second Life, Google Adsense and YouTube
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May 22, 2016 Larry Kramer, Founder of MarketWatch.com
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May 15, 2016 Co-Founder of Tesla, Marc Tarpenning
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Bob Stein of Voyager and The Criterion Collection
Summary: Bob Stein was the founder of Voyager, publisher of the first consumer CDROM titles, and, far and away the leader of the CDROM industry …
Rob Malda (@cmdrtaco) on SlashDot and Social Media
Summary: You might know him as Rob Malda, or you might know him as CmdrTaco, but he was the founder of the great geek social …
Dave Winer on The Open Web, Blogging, Podcasting and More
Summary: Dave Winer has been called the godfather of a lot of things. The godfather of blogging. The Godfather of Podcasting. One of the key …
What Was The First Text Message Ever Sent?
What was the first text message ever sent? Who sent it and why? The first text message over SMS was sent by Neil Papworth on …
Giphy with Nicole LaPorte
Summary: Nicole Laporte has a cover story in Fast Company magazine this month about Giphy, potentially the next big story in online advertising and marketing, …
Om Malik on Blogging and Web2.0
Summary: Om Malik is, of course, a legend. One of the first journalists on the “tech beat” in the 1990s, one of the first bloggers to …
The Story of the AOL/Time Warner Merger
Summary: What is generally considered the worst merger of all time, and certainly the crescendo event of the dotcom bubble era, today we take a …
David Shen on Early Yahoo and the Maturation of Online Advertising
Summary: David Shen was employee #17 at Yahoo, where he eventually had a hand in, not only the birth of advertising as the primary business …
Facebook Almost Had A Mascot Named Pokey
In this week’s episode of the podcast with early Facebook engineer Karel Baloun, we learn that around 2005/2006 Facebook considered launching a company mascot to …