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.

First Website
(CERN)

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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