Internet History Podcast
206 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 363 ratingsA History of the Internet Era from Netscape to the iPad
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6. Mosaic and Internet Explorer Engineer, Chris Wilson
March 10, 2014 19:05 - 1 hour - 44.7 MBSummary: Chris Wilson has been working on browser technology for the better part of two decades. A member of the original Mosaic team, he went on to work first at Spry (producing Internet in a Box) and then later at Microsoft, where he was a major developer of Internet Explorer for almost 15 years. Chris tells us about developing the first Windows port of Mosaic, describes how he was one of the original champions of CSS as a technology, gives us more background about the evolution and life...
5. Netscape and Mosaic Founding Engineer, Lou Montulli
March 06, 2014 16:19 - 1 hour - 45.5 MBSummary: Lou Montulli is a web pioneer. In 1991 and 1992 he co-authored a text web browser called Lynx with Michael Grobe and Charles Rezac while he was at the University of Kansas. This web browser was one of the first available and is still in use today. In 1994 he became a founding engineer of Netscape Communications (employee number 9) and programmed the networking code for the first versions of the Netscape web browser. He is also responsible for several browser innovations, such as ...
4. (Ch 2.1) Microsoft At The Dawn Of The Internet Era
February 26, 2014 19:23 - 58 minutes - 40.2 MBSummary: Netscape has set the standard and taken the lead. But how long will it last? We take a step backwards in this episode and examine why Microsoft was so dominant at the beginning of the Internet Era. We ask the questions: Did Bill Gates really miss the Internet? And: Was the Information Superhighway and the Internet one and the same thing? And we look back on all the things that were distracting Microsoft at the dawn of the Internet Era. Bibliography: Breaking Windows: How Bill Ga...
3. (Ch 1.3) Netscape's IPO As The Big Bang
February 20, 2014 19:46 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MBSummary: Netscape launches and is a smashing success. Jim Barksdale officially comes on as CEO. Netscape fights off legal threats from the NCSA and the University of Illinois. Despite it’s young age and lack of profits, Netscape files to go public in THE historic IPO of the era. Flush with cash, flush with fame, Netscape girds for battle with a new foe: Microsoft. Bibliography: http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/newsrelease1.html http://www.businessweek.com/stories/1994-10-23/from-the-man-who-...
2. (Ch 1.2) The Creation of Netscape
February 19, 2014 18:08 - 59 minutes - 40.7 MBSummary: Marc Andreessen heads out to Silicon Valley. He hooks up with startup legend Jim Clark. They decide to form a company, Netscape, to build upon Mosaic’s previous success. They “get the band back together” by recruiting most of the original Mosaic development team. Netscape Navigator is developed. The company hustles to establish itself before other, larger competitors catch on to the opportunity that is the web browser market. Bibliography: Architects of the Web: 1,000 Days that ...
1. (Ch 1.1) Mosaic - The "First" Web Browser
February 11, 2014 19:28 - 40 minutes - 28 MBSummary: Ayoung Marc Andreessen and a team of programmers at the NCSA on the campus of the University of Illinois create and publish the Mosaic browser, thereby creating the world wide web’s first killer app. Mosaic enjoys meteoric, overnight discuss. But the higher ups at the NCSA take the project away from the “kids” who created it. Examining Mosaic as the “trial run” for the product that would eventually be called Netscape Navigator. Bibliography: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortun...