Ten moments the web shook the world
Sunday, December 17th, 2006Great story in today’s LA Times — worth a read:
TWENTY-THREE years after the birth of what became AOL, a decade after Yahoo’s IPO, eight years after the dawn of Google, five years after the Time-Warner/AOL merger, a year after the founding of YouTube, all but the most calcified corners of the media world (what’s black and white and read all over … ) awoke to the fact that the Internet was not just at the doorstep, it had unpacked its bag, raided the liquor cabinet and taken the family for a joyride down to Baja. This was the year wishful thinking — that this Internet phenomenon might just go away — evaporated, and those media companies still standing began to seek anything that might see them through the deluge. And what a deluge it was.