The Forgotten Online Pioneer, Bill von Meister
Techmeme Ride Home
- Published
- November 29, 2019
- Duration
- 48:32
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Apr 29, 2026
Discusses since it’s a holiday week in the US, I’m going to do what I’ve done once before on…
Summary
since it’s a holiday week in the US, I’m going to do what I’ve done once before on Holiday weeks and give you an episode from the Internet History Podcast archives. This is a story about tech history that, if you’ve never heard it, will blow your mind. What if I told you there was a crazy entrepreneur who was the true founder of wh…
Show notes
since it’s a holiday week in the US, I’m going to do what I’ve done once before on Holiday weeks and give you an episode from the Internet History Podcast archives. This is a story about tech history that, if you’ve never heard it, will blow your mind. What if I told you there was a crazy entrepreneur who was the true founder of what would become America Online? He was the guy who hired Steve Case back before AOL was AOL. What if I told you that same entrepreneur invented