Topic: dot-com boom
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The 1998 TED Talk That Quietly Unveiled Google's Future
It was February 1998. The dot-com boom was nearing its zenith, and the internet, while exploding in popularity, still felt like a somewhat untamed frontier. At a relatively niche TED conference – long before the talks became ubiquitous online viewing -
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PBS Host Stewart Cheifet, Chronicler of the PC Revolution, Dies at 87
Stewart Cheifet, longtime host of PBS's *Computer Chronicles* from 1983 to 2002, has died at 87; his show was pivotal in making early computing and the internet accessible to a mainstream audience. The program chronicled the entire trajectory of modern computing, featuring interviews with pioneer...
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