Internet History

First-person accounts from the early years of the web — what it felt like to build things when the medium was new enough that nobody knew what they were doing.

• Mar 15, 2026 Thirty Years at the Intersection

  Career history from CD-ROM and early internet video through programmatic advertising, fintech, and AI governance.

• Nov 1, 2003 A Conversation with Marc Canter, Part I: "I took the 90's off..."

  In early 2003 I exchanged a week's worth of emails with Marc Canter — founder of MacroMind/Macromedia — about multimedia, the death of interactive TV, and what was then a brand-new thing called blogging.

• Nov 1, 2003 A Conversation with Marc Canter, Part II: "I took the 90's off..."

  The conclusion of my 2003 email interview with Marc Canter — on open standards, what Microsoft would do next, and why blogging mattered.

• Nov 1, 2002 Breaking Down Peter Chernin's Comdex Keynote

  In 2002 I spent a weekend annotating Peter Chernin's Comdex keynote speech line by line. Big Content's arguments against digital rights haven't aged well.

• Aug 1, 2001 Internet in Evolution: The Medianet

  Written in August 2001 as the start of a book proposal — a framework for thinking about the coming collision between consumers, publishers, and governments over broadband media.

• Aug 1, 1996 The Night We Put Television on the Internet

  In 1996, our team at CNN Interactive produced the first commercial internet video webcast. Here's what that felt like.