Ken's remarks are actually a bit strange. It seems like "multimedia" was a big buzzword at the time. His introductory message seems to be almost "unless we get movies/trailers on the Internet ASAP, the Internet is going to fail." Today we all know that to be untrue. There are movies and other multimedia content on the Internet of course, but the primary driver behind its growth has been availability of relevant information and interactive retrieval. Think of Craigslist's success a few years back. It was a very non-multimedia site (unless you classify crappy pocket-cam pictures of your sofa as multimedia) but it provided relevant information, and therefore it succeeded. Also, Google text ads showed to everyone that advertising does not have to be multimedia-intensive -- it will succeed as long as it is relevant.
Yeah, I did a bit of a double take when the first transparency was pulled. That moment, more than anything else in the video, made me realize how far things have come...
I was a freshman in college in 1996 and remember PowerPoints being used in my courses then, so that change is pretty old... and we're still using them today. The reality is that we haven't advanced very much in "presentation technology" in the last 15 years.
Nope. I'm just as pasty and blond as he is, and that was my first thought as well. I would have put him at ~35, but he definitely doesn't look like he's fresh out of college.
“09:08 A lot of people are talking about cyberspace, information superhighway and this idea that we are going to create this alternate environment that we are all gonna live on and that everything is going to be done there… that's crazy.”
At 38:18 Mark discusses "skipping" the hard problems like search in order to get the simplest product out without inventing anything new. At 37:00 he notes Mosaic went from 12 to 3M users in a year and a half. Seems their strategy worked.
Ken's remarks are actually a bit strange. It seems like "multimedia" was a big buzzword at the time. His introductory message seems to be almost "unless we get movies/trailers on the Internet ASAP, the Internet is going to fail." Today we all know that to be untrue. There are movies and other multimedia content on the Internet of course, but the primary driver behind its growth has been availability of relevant information and interactive retrieval. Think of Craigslist's success a few years back. It was a very non-multimedia site (unless you classify crappy pocket-cam pictures of your sofa as multimedia) but it provided relevant information, and therefore it succeeded. Also, Google text ads showed to everyone that advertising does not have to be multimedia-intensive -- it will succeed as long as it is relevant.