tax, 97
TBWAChiatDay, 149–50
Tchao, Michael, 295
Tea Party, 243
TechCrunch, 249–50
telecommunications bubble, 180–81
television, interactive, 39–42
Tel-Save, 166
Tequila, Tila, 263
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (movie), 11
Thefacebook, 268–82
TheGlobe.com, 172–75, 287
Thiel, Peter, 222, 224, 278, 286
Tillery, Kristopher, 267–68
Time magazine
Marc Andreessen and, 8, 36
Jeff Bezos as 1999 Person of the Year, 157
“information highway” issue, 40
Napster cover, 202
Times Mirror, 118
Time Warner
AOL merger, 169–70, 177–78
and dot-com crash, 177–78
early web efforts, 73–75
and Facebook, 285
Full Service Network, 41
timing, and success of new ideas, 294
“Tom’s Diner,” 197
Toshiba, 210–12
Totic, Aleks
on Marc Andreessen’s departure from NCSA, 17
on Marc Andreessen’s vision for the Web, 12
on AOL’s acquisition of Netscape, 165
in NCSA in early nineties, 10
on Netscape launch, 29–30
and Netscape origins, 21
on Netscape work schedule, 24
touchscreens, 309–11
toys, 145–46
Toys “R” Us, 145, 146
Tripod, 173, 174
Trojan Room coffee cam, 70
Trump, Donald, 243
2001: A Space Odyssey (movie), 9
Ty Inc., 116
Ulrich, Lars, 202
Underground, 238
University of California, Berkeley, 12
University of California, Santa Cruz, 196
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, 9, 29, 32
University of Indiana, 126
University of Kansas, 11
Unix, 9
UrbanFetch, 148
U.S. Department of Justice, 162, 163
Usenet, 11
Valentine, Don, 87
Vardi, Yossi, 230–31
Vega, Suzanne, 197
Venrock Associates, 156
venture capital/venture capitalists
Amazon and, 103
Jim Clark’s view of, 18–19
Digg and, 252
dot-com bubble and, 141, 150–52
eBay and, 118–19
Facebook and, 277–81, 286–87
Google and, 192–93
Netscape and, 27
venture capital/venture capitalists (continued)
Web 2.0 and, 250–52
Webvan and, 147
Yahoo and, 87–88
VHS tapes, 217
Viacom, 281, 285, 286
Viaweb, 131
video-on-demand, 41
video rentals, 217–21
ViolaWWW browser, 11–12
viral marketing, 127–28
Wagner, Todd, 126
Wainwright, John, 98
Wales, Jimmy, 246–48
Walker, Jay, 143–45
Walkman, 214
“walled gardens,” 64
Wall Street Journal website, 121
Wanamaker, John, 79
“war bloggers,” 243
Watson, Thomas J., 1
Web 2.0, 242–64
blogs, 242–44
broadband and WiFi, 250
Flickr, 245
instant messaging, 258–59
IPOs and, 252
meaning of, 249
Napster, 244
Slashdot, 244–45
social networking, 259–64
TechCrunch, 249–50
venture capital and, 250–52
wikis, 246–49
YouTube, 253–58
web browsers (generally); See also specific browsers, e.g.: Netscape Navigator
defined, 11
iPhone as, 317
origins of, 9–14
weblog (term), 237
web publications, 70–71
Webvan, 147–48, 172
Weinreich, Andrew, 260, 271
When.com, 130
Whitman, Meg, 118–19
“Who Let the Dogs Out?,” 216
“Why Barnes & Noble May Crush Amazon” (Fortune article), 104–5
WiFi, 250, 308
Wikipedia, 246–49
wikis, 246–49
WikiWikiWeb, 246
William Gates Computer Science Building (Stanford), 184
Williams, Evan, 236
Wilson, Chris, 13, 16–17
Winamp, 198
Windows
and AOL, 56–57
and Apple’s fortunes in late 1990s, 208, 209
and iTunes, 214
and mouse, 2
and World Wide Web, 4
“Windows: the Next Killer Application on the Internet” (Allard), 45
Windows 95 operating system, 39, 46, 48–49, 62–63, 162
Winer, Dave, 238–39
Winfrey, Oprah, 299, 302
Winklevoss, Cameron and Tyler, 267
Winograd, Terry, 185
Wired magazine, 75–79, 238
and dot-com era, 135
and information highway, 40
Wired Ventures, 76
Wirehog, 275, 279, 280
Witt, Stephen, 207
Wojcicki, Susan, 236
Wolmar, Christian, 179–80
Wonkette, 240
woowoo (private IRC channel), 196, 198, 199
WorldCom, 180
Worldnet, 53
World Wide Web
as equivalent to Internet, 16
and mainstreaming of computers, 3
origins of, 4–5
World Wide Web Wizards Workshop, 15
Wozniak, Steve, 2
WWW project, 5
WWW-Talk newsgroup, 11
X.com, 223
Xerox, 2
X Mosaic browser, 13
Yahoo
ad revenue and share price growth, 130
advertising, 91–93
Broadcast.com acquisition, 152
Mark Cuban and, 175
and dot-com era, 134, 152–53, 172
and falling ad market in early 2000s, 226–27
Flickr and Del.icio.us acquisitions, 252
GeoCities acquisition, 152
and Google, 225, 234
and growth of Internet, 181
and Hotmail, 128
IPO, 90–91
market cap at time of Google IPO, 235
marketing strategy, 89–90
monetization problems, 86–87
and Netscape, 85–86
offer to buy Facebook, 291
offer to buy Google, 233–34
origins, 84–86
Overture and, 229
as portal, 128
revenues at time of IPO, 91
rise in share price during 1998, 134–35
as search site, 83
services added to, 128–29
venture capital for, 86–88
as web-only company, 93
Yahoo Mail, 130
Yahoo Shopping, 130–31
Yang, Jerry, 84–91, 128, 131, 188
Yelp, 115, 224
Y2M, 273
YouTube, 253–58, 281, 294, 317
Zawinski, Jamie, 24
Zennström, Niklas, 252–53
Zoomer, 296–97
Zuckerberg, Mark, 274–93
and Course Match, 266
early Web use during teen years, 265–66
and Facebook as colleges-only network, 270–74
and Facebook’s origins, 267–68
and Facemash, 266–67
and first Facebook development team, 268–70
at Harvard, 266–74
key insight abou
t Facebook, 283, 293
and News Feed feature, 288–91
reluctance to sell Facebook, 273, 281, 285–87, 291
at Silicon Valley house, 275–78
Zune MP3 player, 215
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
BRIAN McCCULLOUGH is an eighteen-year veteran of the Internet industry and the founder of various web-based startups. Host of the Techmeme Ride Home podcast and the Internet History Podcast, he was named a 2016 TED Resident. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Copyright © 2018 by Brian McCullough
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