Hype and hoopla in a watershed year: Launching Windows 95
It’s hard to think of 1995 as a turbulent or troubled time. Not when Seinfeld and Friends were among the year’s most-watched TV shows. Not when Mars Inc. ran a … Continue reading
Illuminating the Web: Netscape’s IPO of August 1995
It was 19 years ago tomorrow when Netscape Communications illuminated the World Wide Web for millions of people and catalyzed what became the dot.com boom of the late 1990s. Netscape … Continue reading
How important was Netscape?
Technologist Brendan Eich, the developer of JavaScript programming language and a founder of the Mozilla Foundation, asserted in a blog post the other day that Netscape “changed history” — and … Continue reading
Recalling the ‘coolness’ of the early Web
Debate flares from time to time about just what the World Wide Web was really like in the mid-1990s, a pivotal time when Internet-awareness became a reality. Is it best … Continue reading
Anniversaries, controversies for Amazon
Amazon.com, the company that that demonstrated the Web could be safe for commerce, marks two anniversaries this month, the 20th anniversary of its incorporation and the 19th anniversary of the opening … Continue reading
What did the ’90s mean?
The National Geographic Channel’s series about the 1990s began quite poorly but became rather better during its three installments, the last of which aired Tuesday night. But in the end, … Continue reading
The ’90s deserve better
The 1990s deserve better. Deserve better than the erratic, schlocky, and often-trivial episode that the National Geographic Channel served up last night, in the first of three installments of a … Continue reading
Talking 1995
I was on WMJI’s Morning Show in Cleveland a few weeks back to talk about 1995: It was the first discussion on broadcast media about my forthcoming book, 1995: The … Continue reading
Why 1995?
So why a book about 1995? What made that year that special? Fair questions. And the answers are compelling. Nineteen-ninety five, the topic of my forthcoming book, was a watershed … Continue reading
Welcome to The 1995 Blog
Welcome to The 1995 Blog, a site that will call attention to and revisit the important moments of an exceptional year. The blog has another mission, that of promoting my … Continue reading
The 1995 Blog 