Fred Wilson on The History of The New York Internet Industry

by Scott Beale on September 24, 2008 · 0 comments

Last week at the Web 2.0 Expo NYC, venture capitalist Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures gave a great keynote presentation on the history of the web community in NYC: “The New York Internet Industry, 1995 to 2008, From Nascent to Ascendant”

1 -Start

Fred worked with Jeremy Bogdan setup a wiki to help brainstorm his talk.

Oh and Fred really wants us to drop the name “Silicon Alley” and I agree.

illustration by Jeremy Bogdan

Related Posts:

Internet Week New York, Celebrating NYC’s Internet Industry

The History of the Internet Using PICOL Icons

The New York Times Profiles Internet Trolls

Robert Anton Wilson 1932-2007

History Hacker, Hosted by Bre Pettis on The History Channel

filed under Internet

Leave a Comment

You can use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

Please read our Comment Guidelines before leaving a comment:

Moderation: Because of comment spam issues, all comments are manually approved, so if your comment is approved it may take a while for your comment to appear on this blog post.

Name & Website Required: Due to rampant abuse, we are no longer posting anonymous comments. Please list your real name and provide a link to your website. If you don't have a website, then use a link to your account on Twitter, Flickr or some other form of web presence. With very few exceptions, comments that do not refernce include an actual name or url will not be approved.

Also when we ask for your name we mean your actual name, not Discount Car Products or some other attempt at spam or lame SEO.

Be Civil: Irrelevant, obnoxious or abusive comments will not be approved. Let's keep things civil and on topic. Basically what we are saying, if your comment does not add to the conversation, it will not be approved.

Spam: Spam comments in any form will not be approved. We also do not approve comments that left for the sole purpose of posting a link.

Corrections: If you want to point out a typo or correction, please email us instead. Typo or correction comments will not be approved since they are pretty much useless once they are corrected and then only tend to confuse things.

Gravatars: If you would like a Gravatar to show up with your comment? Just sign-up for an account and any comment with your email address will display your Gravatar.

Previous post: Professor Wikipedia

Next post: Dot Matrix Revolution, A Pixel Art Animated History of Computers