The New York Times
Eighteen years ago this month The New York Times introduced its readers to the Web, and its first killer app, the Mosaic browser.
The newspaper didn’t have an online site yet, but you could find… Read more
New York Times
Six years ago today, on October 10, 2005, New York Times columnist David Carr wrote a story called, “Forget Blogs, Print Needs Its Own iPod.” It is a fascinating reminder of how much media and … Read more
BBC | ASNE Speech
Shortly before he bought MySpace in 2005, Rupert Murdoch shared his thoughts on the digital age in a speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
At the time, the BBC reported on News Corporation’s… Read more
Here is a look at the future from 29 years ago today.
In a June 14, 1982 story called, “Study Says Technology Could
Transform Society” the New York Times described a report from the
National Science Foundation… Read more
In his post, “Nostalgia: 11 Retro News Website Homepages,” Ethan
Klapper takes us back in time with old news website homepages.
He writes:
Inspired by a recent Facebook album posted by Jim Brady, the former
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washingtonpost.com
Harvard Business Review Blog Network
There are lessons to be learned from Usenet, the “Facebook of the ’80s.”
Alexandra Samuel writes:
..if you look at the longer history of the social Web, it’s clear that
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some principles have been
In his Adweek story, “‘1984′: As Good as It Gets,” Steve Hayden writes about the iconic TV commercial that introduced the Mac:
I was privileged to work on what’s been called the best TV commercial ever, Apple Computer’s
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Mashable | OnlineSchools.org | Skloog Infographic
This must be the season for social media history infographics. Here are two that have appeared recently.
First, Mashable’s Jolie O’Dell shares a history infographic from OnlineSchools.org.
She writes:
Here’s a visually organized
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New York Times | Salon | On the Media
Tim Wu’s new book, “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of
Information Empires,” looks to the past to imagine the Internet’s future.
On the Media notes that Wu “discovered that … Read more