Zankou Chicken Murders - The Death of an American Dream | 2
Mardiros Iskenderian was known for two things: the unbelievable generosity he showed to the Armenian community, and the deep love he expressed for his family—particularly for his mother, whom he treat...
20 Dec 201827min
Zankou Chicken Murders - Out of Beirut | 1
It’s January 14th, 2003, and 56-year-old Mardiros Iskenderian, the founder of the family-owned chain of rotisserie restaurants Zankou Chicken, is leaving the house for the first time in months.Twenty ...
18 Dec 201820min
Browser Wars - Even When They Lose They Win | 6
Microsoft has officially won the battle against Netscape, but for Bill Gates, the browser war is far from over. The federal government has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft, and called Gate...
13 Dec 201824min
Browser Wars - Microsoft on the Hot Seat | 5
To compete with Netscape, Bill Gates is forced to do the one thing he hates most: give tech away for free. He bundles Internet Explorer with Windows, effectively making his browser ubiquitous--and Net...
11 Dec 201826min
Browser Wars - An Offer They Can’t Refuse | 4
It’s summer 1995, and Bill Gates is worried about the sudden rise of the Internet. In the world of computers, Gates is used to being in the driver’s seat. Now it seems he’s not even in the car. Marc ...
6 Dec 201823min
Browser Wars - Poker Face | 3
It’s 1974, and a young programmer named Paul Allen has just caught a glimpse of the world’s first personal computer, the Altair 8800. It has the potential to change the computing landscape forever — b...
4 Dec 201823min
Browser Wars - The Birth of a Dot Com Giant | 2
Two disgruntled tech whizzes, Jim Clark and Marc Andreessen, join forces to exact revenge on the companies that wronged them, building a browser so fast and powerful that it wipes their competitors of...
29 Nov 201820min
Browser Wars - Kickstarting a Revolution | 1
It’s 1992, and in the basement of the chemistry building at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, two computer science students are working on a new web browser. Up to this point, browsing h...
27 Nov 201822min
