Angus Burgin
Associate professor of history at Johns Hopkins University specializing in 20th-century U.S. intellectual and political history; author working on an intellectual history of the Internet and known for his prior book The Great Persuasion on conservative economic thought.
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May 11, 2026 • 4min
Angus Burgin on the Rise of the Internet
Angus Burgin, Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins who studies intellectual and political history, discusses the 1990s internet boom. He recalls dial-up, early chatrooms, and email's cultural shift. He examines 90s optimism, Al Gore's tech rhetoric and its fallout, cyberpunk and libertarian visions, and how early hopes gave way to critiques by the 2000s.
May 11, 2026 • 1h 11min
Angus Burgin on the Rise of the Internet
Angus Burgin, associate professor of history at Johns Hopkins who studies 20th-century U.S. intellectual and political life, reflects on the 1990s Internet boom. He recalls college-era email and chatroom culture. He traces techno-optimism from cyberpunk and Gore’s network visions to the fragmentation and policy turn that followed.
May 11, 2026 • 1h 11min
Angus Burgin on the Rise of the Internet
Angus Burgin, Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins, traces the intellectual history of the Internet and 1990s politics. He recalls early online life, discusses techno-optimism versus hardware limits, and examines Al Gore's tech rhetoric. The conversation contrasts libertarian and communal visions of the web and considers how 1990s hopes unraveled into later critique.
