This is what the Internet was like when I got started (pre-web.)
It's amazing how much has changed - and how much hasn't.
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Ken McCarthy organized and sponsored the first conference ever held on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web. His company Amacord Inc., formerly E-Media, was one of the first Internet-based businesses in the world.
In addition to working with small and mid-sized business clients since 1993, McCarthy was a consultant to NEC's Biglobe, the largest online service in Japan, from 1996 to 2001. His book The Internet Business Manual was the first book on web entrepreneurship published in that country. He is also credited by Hotwired magazine with being one of the people responsible for the development and popularization of the banner ad, one of the key underpinnings of commercial Internet publishing.
A graduate of Princeton University, McCarthy came to the Internet industry with a varied background which included technical consulting for two of New York's top investment banks, lecturing on educational psychology at MIT, Columbia, and NYU, and founding and operating a number of small businesses, including one that helped produce an Academy Award winning documentary.
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Thanks for sharing that clip Ken.
The original broadcast was on October 8, 1993 on CBC Television. It is posted at the following url along with a few other historical tech clips from the 60's, 70's and 80's.
http://archives.cbc.ca/400d.asp?id=1-75-710-4205
BTW: I'm looking for a video clip or headline news clipping that refers to that period when corporate web sites went from being a luxury to an absolute necessity of doing business (mid 90's). I need it for a power point presentation. If any one can point to an appropriate url that would be greatly appreciated.
Posted by: Doug Lietz | August 08, 2006 at 12:26 AM
I don't know if there was a single watershed event that can be pointed to.
If there were a key event, in my mind it was the Netscape IPO in the summer of 1995.
That not only got the dotcom craze going, but because it was a such a spectacular Wall Street event, it also woke up everyone in big business that something was happening with 'that web thing' that might be more than just a techie fad.
Posted by: Ken McCarthy | August 08, 2006 at 12:47 PM