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GeoCities: How Millions of People Built Their First Website for Free
I was too young for GeoCities in its prime, but I have spent a surprising amount of time exploring the...
1997: The Year That Changed Everything — Netflix, Google, and the Birth of Modern Tech
I was mapping out timelines for my articles on Reed Hastings and the Musk brothers when I noticed something that...
The Dot-Com Crash: 8,000 Companies Died, but the Survivors Built the Future
I was cleaning out my bookshelf last Saturday and found an old copy of Business 2.0 magazine from 2000 with...
The Netscape IPO That Started the Internet Gold Rush
I was standing in the grocery checkout line last week, watching the kid in front of me buy something on...
What Silicon Valley Was Actually Like in 1995
Someone asked me in a job interview once what era of tech I would most want to have worked in....
MapQuest: The Website That Taught America to Get Directions Online
I was walking the dog the other night and realized I had not looked at a paper map in probably...
The First Webpage: Tim Berners-Lee and the Invention That Made Everything Possible
I was fixing a leaky faucet last weekend — watching a YouTube tutorial on my phone, a browser tab open...
The First Thing Ever Sold Online Was a Pizza — And Then a Sting CD
I have always loved origin stories — especially the ones where something world-changing begins with something absurdly ordinary. The automobile...
