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20 Years On: Why Netscape’s IPO Was the “Big Bang” of the Internet Era
Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark 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...
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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
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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 von Hippel (@mvhip) October 4, 2015 You know… that’s one...
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Photo From My TED Talk
Photo: Ryan Lash / TED 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 tell I wasn’t nervous, right? JK. Of course I...
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A Day In the Life of Research…
Should have inched over to the left a bit… that’s the Empire State Building in the background. As some of you know, if you follow on twitter, I went to the library for a research day today. Deep dive...
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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 things you have ever seen on the internet?...
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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 be called “Pokey.” “Everybody has...
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What Was The First Text Message Ever Sent?
Neil Papworth, sender of the world’s first text message. 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 December 3, 1992....
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