It's today explained, I'm Sean Ramos for him.

It's been a tough year for our politics in the United States.

You seldom see the right, happily working together with the left, but nothing unites politicians

faster than big tech.

Big tech tech companies are making it rain lawsuits on the big tech companies right now.

We're going after Facebook, Apple and the Crosshairs, Amazon too.

We've never really explored how this all started.

What it was like back in the mid to late 90s in Silicon Valley when all of this entire

tech universe was being built.

But there's a new show from the Vox Media Podcast Network that does just that.

It's called Go for Broke.

It's all about bubbles and the moments they pop.

The first season, which you can listen to in full, is about the dot com boom and bust

of the late 90s.

One of the first episodes of the show focuses on Netscape Navigator.

Remember Netscape?

Almana, one of the producers of the show, does not.

It made me feel 10 years older than her, which I probably am.

Anyway, Netscape was one of the first Buzzy Silicon Valley startups, the first big IPO,

and then one of the first big crashes and burns today were bringing you that story about

Netscape Navigator and how it really set the stage for a lot of what we see in big tech

today.

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