Tired of Fake News? On Web Masters, we hear from David Mikkelson, the man who’s been fighting it online since the 1980s!
David Mikkelson:
I wish I could take credit for 25 years ago, …
How do you compete in a huge market with tons of bigger and better-resourced competitors? Find out on this episode of Web Masters when Joe Colopy, founder of Bronto Software, shares the story of …
Unless you’ve only just gotten onto the Internet in the last few years, you’ve surely heard of Napster. But Napster wasn’t the first music sharing service. On Web Masters, hear the story of Audiogalaxy, …
Most websites will never need to worry about supporting millions of simultaneous users. But the ones that do run into serious database trouble. When they need help, they call Peter Zaitsev, founder of Percona …
When you need to find something online, you open Google and enter a search query. But that wasn’t always possible. Early in Internet history, search engines didn’t exist, and you couldn’t search for things. …
In 1999, Drew Curtis launched a humor website called Fark. In 2021, it’s still one of the most popular communities online. Hear how Drew and Fark have managed to survive two-plus decades on the …
Experienced Internet business owners understand affiliate marketing. It’s core to how companies make money online. However, when it was first tried, affiliate marketing was revolutionary, and it opened the door for all sorts of …
Before Facebook became synonymous with “social media,” and even before MySpace was the coolest website on the planet, there was another startup that most people credit with inventing social networking as we know it: Friendster. …
You definitely remember the “Dot-Com Bubble.” But did you know a 19-year-old college dropout played a big part in making it happen? This episode of Web Masters explains how. It features Bill Martin, founder …
The Browser Wars were ruthless. One of the biggest victims was Opera, which, at one time, was the most popular browser in the world. Now it’s a distant sixth, and few people remember just …