Hi, I'm Jimmy. I won't waste too much of your time by being up here. I'm just here to introduce

Brian, host of Tech Memes Ride Home Podcast, recently wrote a book called How the Internet

happened from Netscape to the iPhone.

Brian's got a history of working in the tech industry

and startups.

He'll talk more about that, but essentially amassed

a whole lot of knowledge about the history of the internet and wrote this book in his own words because no one else had and

We'll share a lot of interesting things that he learned along the way with us

I'll also just note that there are books for sale as usual with these things at the subsidized

price for Googlers. So feel free to pick one here so I can quote from the book once or twice.

Thank you all for coming, and thanks Google

for having me come.

As Jimmy said, I'm actually not a historian or a writer.

This is my first book. I'm a three-time web founder. Actually funny enough, I've said this on many of my podcasts. My first company, I found it in 99 I've said many times was 100% built on

AdWords back in the day when it was still useful and not filled with spam. But in my memory, the day that y'all opened it up

for the self-serve thing is the day that I got on Edwards

and, God, I can remember paying 8 cents a click for the keyword resume and things like that.

It was nutty times.

But so the reason that I did this book, my second startup was 2002, my third, 2005. It just sort of bothered me that there's excellent books of course about the history of the Arpenet and things like like that but the actual internet going mainstream

and entering normal people's lives

no one had done and I just got tired of no one writing that book

so like any other startup I've done I was like well just got tired of no one writing that book.

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