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Business Daily meets: Tim O'Reilly

Business Daily

BBC

News, Business

4.4796 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

The Silicon Valley veteran created the first commercial website to support advertising in 1993.

He is a publisher and author and now runs an online learning platform. He talks to Ed Butler about the recent dips in tech stocks, and the future of AI.

Presenter: Ed Butler Producer: Olivia Wilson

(Image: Tim O'Reilly. Credit: Getty Images)

Transcript

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0:00.0

In 2008, 23-year-old Norwegian student Martina Vic Magnuson was killed in an apartment near Mayfair.

0:08.3

Hours after her death, the only suspect in the case fled the UK to Yemen.

0:13.4

He's never been questioned by the police.

0:16.2

I'm Noelle Makhaffi, and I made a promise to Martina's family 15 years ago to find out what happened.

0:22.7

Murder in Mayfair.

0:24.4

Part of the documentary, find it wherever you get your BBC podcasts.

0:30.1

Hi there, my name's Ed Butler.

0:31.8

Welcome to Business Daily on the BBC World Service coming up today.

0:35.5

If you've used the internet to buy or sell things lately,

0:39.5

been advertised at all, turned ads off. You're going to be interested to hear from our latest

0:44.3

guest. Back in 1993, Tim O'Reilly created the first ever commercial website able to support advertising.

0:52.0

Nobody had really thought of that before.

0:57.0

You can just have a website where people come from more information.

0:59.2

This is when there were only 200 websites, of course.

1:03.1

Nobody would have predicted that Google would come out on top,

1:05.0

that Amazon would come out on top.

1:06.7

Neither of them raised very much money.

1:08.7

Tim O'Reilly is a publisher and author.

1:12.3

He founded and runs the online learning platform O'Reilly Media.

1:16.2

It's been putting out books and other resources for more than 40 years.

1:19.6

And he was there right at the dawn of the Internet age.

1:26.4

We decided to create a demo for what you could do with the World Wide Web using this browser that we were using for our book reader.

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