In the 6th episode of 9 weeks of 99, the guys look at some of the Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) that happed that year. There were a lot of them, and a few are companies you might have heard of, and other are companies you might not have heard of.
If you can still hear the mechanical squawk of a 56k modem connecting, congratulations: you survived the 90s internet. Welcome to the weird and wonderful pre-social media web.
The 80s and 90s weren’t just decades. They were cultural powerhouses that transformed entertainment, fashion, and how we connected with the world.
Jamie Fenderson
Independent web publisher, blogger, podcaster… creator of digital worlds. Analyst, designer, storyteller… proud polymath and doer of things.
The Y2K bug was a cultural phenomenon. It was a late-90s cocktail of millennial anxiety, corporate profiteering, and 24-hour news hysteria.