25 Years in 25 Days (1991): The First Website

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 1, 2014

This fall, the Brian Lehrer Show is marking 25 years of Brian at WNYC with a year-by-year look at stories that mattered from 1989 to 2014. Find the full schedule and lots more here.

Also today: Hear original WNYC reporting from the 1991 Crown Heights riots.


1991 saw the first website. Doug Rushkoff, media thinker, author, and now professor of media studies at CUNY/Queens College, reflects on how 23 years of Internet have changed the world.

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