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 …
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August 7, 2015 20 Years On: Why Netscape’s IPO Was the “Big Bang” of the Internet Era
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April 3, 2015 What Was The First Item Ever Ordered On Amazon?
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March 1, 2015 On the 20th Anniversary – The History of Yahoo’s Founding
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April 3, 2014 On The 20th Anniversary – An Oral History of Netscape’s Founding
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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 …
If the Internet were on fire, what would you save?
Over at Kottke.org, the gentleman scholar Tim Carmody has been minding the store all week and is running an interesting experiment: .@kottke What are the best …
A Day In the Life of Research…
As some of you know, if you follow on twitter, I went to the library for a research day today. Deep dive into Fortune Mag, …
Photo From My TED Talk
So here are some photos from this past Tuesday night when I delivered my TED Talk for the TED Residency event. By my posture you can …
This is really cool…
@pmarca hearing you & others described on @NetHistoryPod inspired my 1st biz. I’m giving my 1st pitch to a VC soon. Any suggestions? — Max …
Podcast Featured in Wired Germany Today
If you click over in Google Chrome, it will translate it. https://www.wired.de/collection/latest/wie-ein-podcast-die-geschichte-des-internets-erzahlt
20 Years On: Why Netscape’s IPO Was the “Big Bang” of the Internet Era
This Sunday, August 9th, marks the 20th anniversary of perhaps the seminal moment in modern tech history. On August 9th, 1995, Netscape Communications Corporation went …