Chapter 5, Part 1 – Mercury Center and Pathfinder – Big Media’s Big Web Adventure
Summary: We’ve been looking at how companies were feeling their way into the internet era, trying to create new industries and new mediums without precedent …
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January 4, 2015 Chapter 6 – A History of Internet Porn
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September 15, 2014 Chapter 5, Part 2 – Wired, CNet, Salon, Slate and Suck – More Early Web Media
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July 20, 2014 Chapter 5, Part 1 – Mercury Center and Pathfinder – Big Media’s Big Web Adventure
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June 9, 2014 Chapter 4, Part 2 – How Yahoo Became The Web’s First Great Company
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May 9, 2014 Chapter 4, Part 1 – The Early Search Engines And Yahoo
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Chapter 4, Part 2 – How Yahoo Became The Web’s First Great Company
Summary: Yahoo became the web’s first truly great company, and in this episode, we examine why. Turning to advertising as a business model, Yahoo was …
Chapter 4, Part 1 – The Early Search Engines And Yahoo
Summary: As the early web grows, the explosion of content and websites creates chaos. Early search engines are among the most popular sites on …
Chapter 3, Part 2 – The Rise of AOL
Summary: America Online survives the inevitable run-in with Microsoft, only to come out the other side stronger. The company has to endure major PR fiascos …
Chapter 3, Part 1 – CompuServe, Prodigy, AOL And The Early Online Services
Summary: We take a step back to look at the early online services: CompuServe, Delphi, GEine, the WELL and especially, early AOL. Why? Well, because …
Chapter 2, Part 2 – Bill Gates “Gets” The Internet
Summary: Microsoft was on top of the world at the dawn of the Internet Era… but like Jack Dawson in Titanic? Microsoft would pivot, and …
Chapter 2, Part 1 – Microsoft At The Dawn Of The Internet Era
Summary: Netscape has set the standard and taken the lead. But how long will it last? We take a step backwards in this episode …
Chapter 1, Part 3 – Netscape, The Big Bang
Summary: Netscape launches and is a smashing success. Jim Barksdale officially comes on as CEO. Netscape fights off legal threats from the NCSA and the …
Chapter 1, Part 2 – The Creation of Netscape
Summary: Marc Andreessen heads out to Silicon Valley. He hooks up with startup legend Jim Clark. They decide to form a company, Netscape, to build …
Chapter 1, Part 1 – Mosaic
Summary: A young Marc Andreessen and a team of programmers at the NCSA on the campus of the University of Illinois create and publish the …