Chapter 5, Supplemental 2 – Head of Time New Media Executive Linda McCutcheon
Summary: Linda McCutcheon is another Pathfinder veteran. She came up through Time Inc. on the marketing side, so she was the one responsible for …
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December 13, 2022 The del.icio.us Story With Joshua Schachter
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June 16, 2019 Inventor of the Hashtag, Chris Messina
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May 18, 2019 Google, Twitter and More With Karen Wickre
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May 4, 2019 Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott
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October 28, 2018 The Google Story with Matt Cutts @mattcutts
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Chapter 5, Supplemental 1 – Pathfinder Editorial Executive Craig Bromberg
Summary: Craig Bromberg has had a long and fascinating career at the intersection of media and technology. An early adopter of online technologies, Craig …
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 …
Chapter 4, Interview 6 – Co-Founder of FocaLink, Dave Zinman
Summary: Today we have an interview with Dave Zinman, co-founder of FocaLink Media services, which, if you’ll recall, developed the first remote ad server. We …
Chapter 4, Supplemental 5 – Co-Founder of DoubleClick, Kevin O’Connor
Summary: Kevin O’Connor is the co-founder of the granddaddy of all Internet advertising companies, DoubleClick. Chances are, if you’ve seen a banner ad over the …
Chapter 4, Supplemental 4 – Yahoo’s Employee #3, Tim Brady
Summary: When you talk about Yahoo, most people know the names Jerry Yang and David Filo. But if you talk to people who were there …
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, Supplemental 3 – Co-Founder of Netgravity, John Danner
Summary This is a wide ranging and fascinating interview with John Danner. John was the co-founder of another of the major internet advertising pioneers, NetGravity. …
The Incredible True Story Behind AMC’s Halt And Catch Fire – How Compaq Cloned IBM And Created An Empire
An Interview With Compaq Co-Founder and CEO Rod Canion This Sunday, AMC is premiering a new original series called Halt And Catch Fire. Set in …
Chapter 4, Supplemental 2 – Co-Creator of the First Remote Ad Server, Jason Strober
Summary In this episode we continue our exploration into the roots Internet advertising. We’re speaking with Jason Strober, another Internet Advertising pioneer and co-founder of …
Chapter 2, Supplemental 1 – An Interview With Internet Explorer Team Member, Hadi Partovi
Summary Hadi Partovi was one of the original 9 people on the Internet Explorer project. He left Microsoft in the late 90s to found …
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, Supplemental 1 – The Forgotten Online Pioneer, Bill von Meister
What If I Told You… … there was a crazy entrepreneur who was the true founder of what would become America Online? He was the …
Chapter 4, Supplemental 1 – An Interview With Craig Kanarick, Co-Designer of the World’s First Banner Ad and Co-Founder of Razorfish
Summary Craig Kanarick was one of the people responsible for the first ever banner ad, which appeared on Oct. 27, 1994 on Hotwired.com. As mentioned in the …
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 1, Supplemental 5 – An Interview With Rob McCool
Summary: Rob McCool is another of the core group of original Mosaic programmers who went on to found Netscape. Unlike a lot of the others …
Chapter 1, Supplemental 4 – An Interview With Jon Mittelhauser
Summary: Jon Mittelhauser is another of the core group of original Mosaic programmers who went on to found Netscape. Jon worked on the Windows versions …
Chapter 1, Supplemental 3 – An Interview With Aleks Totic
Summary: Aleks Totic was one of the original Mosaic engineers at the NCSA, responsible for the Mac version of Mosaic. They don’t call him “Mac …
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 …