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 …
You already know Google Analytics. It’s on 70% of the world’s websites. But do you know how it got started? Listen to Google Analytics co-founder, Scott Crosby, tell the full story on this episode of …
It might surprise you to learn that sophisticated advertising technologies were developed relatively late after websites like AltaVista and GeoCities were already becoming hugely popular. The man who — for better or worse — …
In the late 90s, Bo Peabody launched a “homepage builder” called Tripod as an experiment. It went viral literally overnight, and Bo became known as an entrepreneurial wunderkind. But was it skill and smarts …
In 1994, Craig Kanarick co-founded Razorfish, one of the first global digital media design agencies. By 1999, the company had 1,200+ employees, nearly a dozen offices around the world, almost $100m in annual revenue, …