193. The Home Page Film With Doug Block

193. The Home Page Film With Doug Block

Author: Brian McCullough April 7, 2019 Duration: 1:00:18
20 years ago, the acclaimed documentarian Doug Block released a landmark film, Home Page. Doug’s documentary accidentally chronicled the birth of blogging, featuring several people we’ve talked to on this very show, including Justin Hall. But the documentary also captured a moment in time, the web going mainstream, the beginnings of the dotcom bubble, the early days of Wired, Hotwired and Suck and also so many of the things I ask people about on here regularly. How people learned to live online, to begin to port all of modern life over to the digital. Well, Home Page is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a re-release, and starting this week, you can watch it yourself everywhere films are gettable, including iTunes. Today we speak to Doug Block about this amazing movie that I think is one of the best historical records of the era we have been interrogating for nearly 5 years on this podcast. Go watch Home Page yourself, and check out The D-word, Doug’s community for documentarians, at D-word.com. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Brian McCullough's Internet History Podcast digs into the foundational stories of our digital world, exploring the pivotal moments and forgotten detours between the rise of the first mainstream web browser and the dawn of the modern mobile era. This isn't just a dry recounting of dates and corporate maneuvers. Instead, the podcast weaves together the intersecting threads of technology, business, and the profound societal shifts they triggered. You'll hear about the personalities, the breakthrough products, the spectacular failures, and the cultural phenomena that collectively built the internet as we know it. Each episode serves as a chapter in a larger, ongoing narrative about how connectivity reshaped everything from commerce and communication to creativity and community. For anyone curious about how we got here, this series provides essential context, revealing the human drama behind the code and the hardware. Tune in for a deeply researched, engagingly told chronicle of the forces that defined a generation and continue to shape our future.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 100

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Emergency Podcast Announcement [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:44
Emergency Podcast Announcement Link to Amazon See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
182. Google's Matt Cutts @mattcutts [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:01:50
I figure most of you should know who Matt Cutts is, but if you don't, let's just leave it at this: he's about to give you the best, most behind-the-scenes oral history of early Google we've gotten so far on this podcast.…
181. (Ch. 7.5) The Story of craigslist [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 22:22
SUMMARY: The history of Craig Newmark, craigslist and other odds and ends that didn’t make the book! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-…
180. Part 2 With John McCrea [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:31:18
Simple enough: Part 2 with John McCrea. More on SGI, more on doing battle with Microsoft in the 90s. And... interesting stuff on VR and the future... See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy…
179. On Silicon Graphics with John McCrea (Pt. 1) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:11:20
John McCrea is a Zelig-like personality who pops up in so many of the narratives we've already covered: Apple. Netscape. Doing battle with Microsoft. This is part one, mostly about Silicon Graphics, a company I had been…
178. On Google's 20th Birthday - The History of Google [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:35:02
On Google's 20th Birthday (September 4th) a re-cutting and re-airing of my comprehensive history of Google, from it's inception through its IPO. Happy Birthday, Google! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and…
177. NandO.net with Fraser Van Asch [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 37:15
Nando.net was not only a very early experiment in bringing journalism to the web, it was also one of those local ISP's that flowered in the era of the early 1990s. Fraser Von Asch was not only one of the key players at T…
176. The Epic Fail of Digg V.4 With Will Larson [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 49:56
This story has gone down in Silicon Valley lore as the ultimate cautionary tale. Digg was the earliest high flying startup in early social media. But then, other startups like Facebook and Twitter started to steal the li…
175. How the Internet Came to Pakistan With Imran Haider [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 41:23
Today, we're going to continue our occasional project of getting oral histories and personal anecdotes about how, exactly, the Internet and the web came to various places around the world. On this episode we're going to…
174. Bringing the NYTimes and MSNBC Online With Lisa Napoli [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:05:59
Lisa Napoli got a job straight out of college at CNN in its earliest days, which is a crazy startup story in it’s own right. But then she worked for a time at Delphi, which was an early online service and competitor to A…