The Oral History of the Launch of Epicurious

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From the article, emphasis mine:

> There was much debate about what platform to build on. Would we be on the open web or a walled garden? There was no guarantee that the web was going to win over these big companies. In fact, a lot of them, like The New York Times, started on AOL. But Steve Newhouse [chairman of Advance Publications, parent of Condé Nast] went with the open world. We started on the web.

Some things never change.

I'm the Dan Kohn in the article. AMA, though my memory from 20 years ago is a little shaky.

Hey Dan, no questions in particular, but this was a fascinating and hilarious look into the infancy of the internet. Kudos, my parents, and 13 year old me didn't get the internet til 1999, but this site certainly seemed to be ahead of its time. To this day it's my go to cooking site, although Kenji and the team at serious eats bring a perspective I enjoy.

I'm so glad it's still around and making people happy.

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