Summary I missed it (I should really be keeping a calendar of these things) but Slate.com celebrated its 20th anniversary last month. If you’ll recall, …

Summary If you’ll remember in Episode 32, we explored the early digital media startups like Salon, Slate, Suck, Pathfinder, etc. One site that was mentioned, …

Summary: Chris Higgins is back! In this very fun episode we talk about Windows 95, command line computing, who is the Microsoft of tech today …

Twenty years ago today, this email made the rounds among the dozens of engineers and researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS in Germany: Date: …

Summary: Owen Thomas is back on the show for another analysis episode, helping us establish the context for the dot-com era. You can listen to his previous …

Summary: It’s part two of our Amazon founding story. How did Amazon come to completely dominate e-commerce? How did Jeff Bezos’ “Get Big Fast” strategy …

  Summary: Finally, the long-promised foray into e-commerce, starting with… not the first… but practically the first… player in the space… and ironically enough, the 800 …

Summary: You may know Glenn Fleishman from a bunch of things. He has written for Wired, Fortune, Popular Science, The New York Times, and PCWorld, …

The Truth About Al Gore Inventing The Internet As you know, often on this podcast, I run across issues or tidbits from the past that …

This Is The’s World’s First Banner Ad: This is almost the exact size, almost the exact resolution, exact ad. Of course, it’s not *technically* the …