Episode 578 • • 4:24 - 7:31
578: Blast Wave Accelerator
Deja News, Usenet History, Early Internet Commercialization
The search engine Deja News previously organized Usenet newsgroups before its acquisition and eventual integration into Google. Early internet culture in the 1990s was often hostile toward commercial entities, exemplified by backlash against the registration of MTV.com. Users during this era frequently complained about "bandwidth theft" when websites linked directly to external images.