Season 1
4 episodes · Mar 3, 2008
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S1E1Browser Wars
Mar 3, 200843mThe story of Netscape’s rapid rise as the company that popularized the web browser—and its fierce battle with Microsoft. The episode examines how Microsoft responded to the threat posed by Netscape, leading to a defining corporate conflict of the early Internet era.
S1E2Search
Mar 3, 200843mA look at the race to organize the rapidly expanding World Wide Web. The episode follows early search companies such as Yahoo and Excite before charting Google’s emergence and its transformation of how people find information online.
S1E3Bubble
Mar 4, 200844mAmazon founder Jeff Bezos and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar recount how their companies grew from small Internet ventures into major global businesses. The episode also explores the speculative dot-com boom, the crash of 2000, and the online companies that survived it.
S1E4People Power
Mar 4, 200844mThe Internet shifts from a place primarily used to publish and consume information into a platform driven by its users. Beginning with Shawn Fanning and Napster, the episode explores peer-to-peer file sharing, Web 2.0, user-generated content and the rise of social networking.