If you have a chance, don’t miss the weekly series Download: The True Story of the Internet on Discovery Channel, covering the names and faces of people behind the internet, as reported by John Heilemann. (The series repeats through April with times and dates here.) Bubble was the episode I caught which showed the origins of eBay and Amazon—and just how much these guys didn’t know leading up to the crash. It’s worth noting that we’re almost a decade later and from the cheap seats here, it looks like we could be headed for a similar bubble with social media sites like MySpace and Facebook. (The other thing worth noting is the irony of a show called Download that you, um, can’t?) Nits aside, catch it.Tags: Download: The True Story of the Internet, social media
3 comments:
You know, if you ever started a blog about what to watch on TV, I'd read it.
This isn't another piece of Gore propaganda?
ID - TV’s dead. This was on cable. ;-p
Toad - Not sure about that. Watching the actual founder’s being interviewed and hearing in their own words how they were winging it seems more like a commentary on that whole time (like the Enoron gang) than it does Goreproganda. (Ouch, sorry.) ;-p
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