Chapter Five: The Protocol Wars

This episode looks back at where all of our main characters landed in their lives after the tech boom and bust and what they have learned.

Goto.com rises to the highest levels of success and even tries to buy Google. But this episode looks at what went wrong.

In this episode, we pivot to Pasadena where the world of e-commerce is taking off to broader audiences. Through our e-commerce characters, we meet Bill Gross who is digging into the radically changing world of paid search

This episode explores a new protocol war between EIT and Netscape over security.

This is the origin story of when Marc Andreessen first arrives in Silicon Valley. This episode paints a picture of the world he arrives in, who he befriends and who he alienates.

Episode One introduces our listeners to the next generation of Computer Freaks who are getting into new technologies like the world wide web and e-commerce - just as these fields are opening up to the masses.

On the heels of Season One of Computer Freaks, Season Two pivots to the dawn of internet entrepreneurship and its broader and irrevocable impact on our culture in the 1990s. Featuring extensive interviews with internet pioneers from companies like Google, Overture, Netscape and more. New episodes are available every Thursday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

We return to speaking to Joseph Haughney about his hopes for the Arpanet. We ask other founders how they feel about what the internet has become. We also speak to internet early founder Hans Werner Braun’s daughters about how they reconcile themselves the world their father helped create.

It is the late 1970s and early 1980s and the Arpanet is in decline. NSFnet is on the rise in its place. Why did the Arpanet get eclipsed by other networks, and is that OK?

Louis Pouzin is a French academic who some experts say really invented the Arpanet. But is that true, and should any one person be given all the credit?