The The Welcome to the Internet History Podcast. I'm your host Brian McCullough. Well, as we say in this

episode, he'll always be known as the inventor of the hashtag, but Chris Messina

has been central to so many things in tech over the last 20 years or so.

He helped Mozilla launch Firefox.

He founded Bar Camp, where so much Web 2.0 goodness happened and was launched. He co-founded the first co-working space in San Francisco.

He helped Google Try to Grock Social with Google Plus. Oh, and of course, that hashtag business.

My thanks to Chris for sitting down to talk about all of that, and most intriguingly, what's

up next for him? Christmas, Nina,

Nina, thanks for coming on the Internet History podcast.

I'm super excited to be here.

I'm glad you made time while you were in town.

For, I feel it, I think you're two or three years. glad you made time while you were in town.

I feel it, I think you're two or three years younger than me,

but for people that are mostly contemporaneous to me,

my favorite opening question is your first computer that was either it you had access to or

sometimes the more interesting one is the first computer that was yours and nobody else's? Well, it depends on how you define a computer.

I remember that my grandparents had an Atari

and I would go play that.

So that is a computer, but that's not what you would think of as one.

The first one that was mostly mine by virtue of me mostly destroying it was an IBM PS2

probably in the early 90s.

It didn't happen to be a model 25 did it because that was my first one.

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