Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

00:00:52] MARK: Sure. Before you think I was a complete nerd, in addition to making money selling software, which I did at 15, 16 years old, I also made money throwing keg parties. MARK] I started comp sci. MARK] The thing is, it was 1991 and it was a terrible recession. I grew up in Northern California.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. If you came here via a direct link you might want to check out the more detailed full version on my blog, which is here. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. And so it goes with social networking. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL controlled the services, taxed companies to access users and decided what was good or bad. AOL was closed, the Internet was open.

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