056 The History of the Internet | Brian McCullough
Curiosityness
Travis DeRose
4.8 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
How did the internet as we know it come to be? Brian McCullough documents and shares loads of information about The Internet Era from Netscape, 1995, to the present day.
In this episode, we cover the explosion of Netscape, Microsoft's take over, search engines, the Dotcom bubble, and even the future of tech and the internet. This is a fascinating episode non-techies will enjoy!
For more internet history visit: http://www.internethistorypodcast.com
Get Brian's book, How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone: https://amzn.to/2XHOe3b
For up to date daily tech news, check out Brian's other podcast Techmeme Ride Home: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/techmeme-ride-home/id1355212895
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| 0:00.0 | A spontaneous and unrehearsed interview. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome to Curiosityness, the podcast. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm your host, Travis DeRose, and this is episode 56. |
| 0:16.0 | And we're talking to Brian, who hosts the Internet History podcast, and he's also written a book |
| 0:22.7 | called How the Internet Happened. |
| 0:25.8 | Super interesting, awesome, fun, gripping stuff. |
| 0:30.4 | That's not a sarcastic, but it is actually really truly awesome. |
| 0:33.3 | I don't know why I said it like that. |
| 0:35.1 | And I had a great time listening and learning about all this stuff. |
| 0:38.8 | By the way, links to his podcast and his book are down in the show notes. |
| 0:42.4 | So definitely check that stuff out. |
| 0:44.3 | If this at all interests you, you can dive deep into the stuff. |
| 0:48.7 | He does interviews with everybody who was related to the history of the internet. And we basically cover |
| 0:57.2 | from 1995 to the 2007 era, kind of the like that starts with the Netscape browser and all that |
| 1:05.8 | kind of stuff and then go through the bubble and we talk about the future of the internet. |
| 1:10.0 | But it's a really fun, interesting podcast that I think you're really going to like. |
| 1:14.0 | So without further ado, here is Brian of the Internet History Podcast. |
| 1:22.4 | Boom. |
| 1:23.1 | We're on. |
| 1:23.5 | How's it going, Brian? |
| 1:25.3 | Good, Travis. |
| 1:26.1 | How are you? |
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