Internet History Podcast
A History Of The Internet Era From Netscape To The iPad. A fully interactive history project outlining the people and technologies that made the Internet Era possible. Includes interviews with those involved.
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33. HotWired CEO Andrew Anker
Summary: Soon after the founding of Wired Magazine, it was ...
Summary: Soon after the founding of Wired Magazine, it was decided that Wired needed a major web presence. Andrew Anker was recruited to write a business plan and launch a website that would become HotWired.com. As we’ve seen in this...
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32. (Ch 5.2) Wired, CNET, Slate, Salon and Suck
More Early Web Media Plays
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31. Real Networks Founder and CEO Rob Glaser
Summary: Rob Glaser was, and is, the founder and CEO ...
Summary: Rob Glaser was, and is, the founder and CEO of Real Networks. If you were around in the 90s, you’ll remember Real Audio and Real Video and the Real Media player. In the age before broadband, Real Networks pioneered streaming media on...
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30. (Misc 2) The NSA And The 1990s Debate Over the Clipper Chip
Summary: What the mid-1990's debate about the so-called "clipper chip" ...
Summary: What the mid-1990's debate about the so-called "clipper chip" can teach us about our contemporary debates concerning NSA surveillance of the Internet and the Web. This episode was originally written as a piece on Medium, entitled The...
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29. Analysis Episode 1 With Chris Higgins @chrishiggins
Summary: A new kind of episode today. I sat down ...
Summary: A new kind of episode today. I sat down with writer, blogger and former programmer Chris Higgins to do a sort of analysis episode, expanding on some of the issues covered in Chapters 1 and 2. Hope you enjoy.
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28. Pathfinder Executive Oliver Knowlton
Oliver Knowlton is another one of our Pathfinder.com alumni. He’s ...
Oliver Knowlton is another one of our Pathfinder.com alumni. He’s had a wide and varied career in media, from his role as the General Manager of Sports Illustrated to his current role as the VP of the Digital Portfolio Group at Gannett, he’s been work
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27. She Gave The World A Billion AOL CDs - An Interview With Marketing Legend Jan Brandt
Jan Brandt is a legend in the world of marketing. ...
Jan Brandt is a legend in the world of marketing. She singlehandedly led the famous AOL "carpet-bombing" campaign that put millions of AOL trial discs and CDs in everything from magazines to popcorn boxes to banks. AOL was able to leap to the front of the
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26. Head of Time New Media Executive Linda McCutcheon
Linda McCutcheon is another Pathfinder veteran. She came up through ...
Linda McCutcheon is another Pathfinder veteran. She came up through Time Inc. on the marketing side, so she was the one responsible for landing the first advertisements that ran on the Pathfinder site. But she also stayed at Time Warner through the entire
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25. Pathfinder Editorial Executive Craig Bromberg
Craig Bromberg has had a long and fascinating career at ...
Craig Bromberg has had a long and fascinating career at the intersection of media and technology. An early adopter of online technologies, Craig was a freelance writer when he was chosen by Pathfinder head Walter Isaacson to become the first editorial dir
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24. (Ch 5.1) Mercury Center and Pathfinder - Big Media's Big Web Adventure
We’ve been looking at how companies were feeling their way ...
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 or a road map. But thus far, we’ve mainly been looking at pure-play tech companies. And when the web re
