Uploaded April 2022 | Updated September 2026, 10 minutes ago
A 5 and 1/2 hour Meet and Greet that took place on 4/2/2022 with Steve Perlman and Joe Britt where they touch on things like WebTV and XBAND among other stuff. These guys took the time out of there day to sit down with a bunch of geeks and answer any questions we had, amazing! Truly nice people. It was great to hear about the accomplishments and stories to go along with them.
Steve Perlman is an entrepreneur and inventor of Internet, entertainment, multimedia, consumer electronics and communications technologies and services. He is best known for the development of QuickTime, WebTV, OnLive, pCell and Mova Contour facial capture technologies. In addition to founding startup companies, Perlman was a Microsoft division president and a principal scientist at Apple Computer.
Joe Britt: Joe’s Silicon Valley career began 25 years ago at Apple, and has included senior engineering roles at 3DO, Catapult Entertainment, and WebTV. Joe was the first WebTV employee, and he built the OS used in every WebTV set top box. After WebTV Joe founded Danger Research in 2000 with co-founders Andy Rubin and Matt Hershenson. At Danger, Joe led thedesign of the hiptop smartphone (sold in the US as the T-Mobile Sidekick). Danger was purchased by Microsoft in 2008 for $500MM. Prior to founding Afero, Joe spent several years at Google working on Android hardware. He also has really cool hair!
WebTV was a web access product consisting of a thin client device which used a television for display (instead of using a computer monitor), and the online service that supported it. The device design and service was developed by WebTV Networks, Inc., a company started in 1995. The WebTV product was announced in July 1996 and later released on September 18, 1996. In April 1997, the company was purchased by Microsoft Corporation and in July 2001, was rebranded to MSN TV and absorbed into MSN.
XBAND (stylized as XBⱯND) was one of the first competitive online console gaming networks and was available for the Genesis and Super NES systems. It was produced by Catapult Entertainment, a Cupertino, California-based software company. It is the only modem released in America to have been officially licensed by Nintendo. It debuted in various areas of the United States in late 1994 and 1995.
A 5 and 1/2 hour Meet and Greet that took place on 4/2/2022 with Steve Perlman and Joe Britt where they touch on things like WebTV and XBAND among other stuff. These guys took the time out of there day to sit down with a bunch of geeks and answer any questions we had, amazing! Truly nice people. It was great to hear about the accomplishments and stories to go along with them.
Steve Perlman is an entrepreneur and inventor of Internet, entertainment, multimedia, consumer electronics and communications technologies and services. He is best known for the development of QuickTime, WebTV, OnLive, pCell and Mova Contour facial capture technologies. In addition to founding startup companies, Perlman was a Microsoft division president and a principal scientist at Apple Computer.
Joe Britt: Joe’s Silicon Valley career began 25 years ago at Apple, and has included senior engineering roles at 3DO, Catapult Entertainment, and WebTV. Joe was the first WebTV employee, and he built the OS used in every WebTV set top box. After WebTV Joe founded Danger Research in 2000 with co-founders Andy Rubin and Matt Hershenson. At Danger, Joe led thedesign of the hiptop smartphone (sold in the US as the T-Mobile Sidekick). Danger was purchased by Microsoft in 2008 for $500MM. Prior to founding Afero, Joe spent several years at Google working on Android hardware. He also has really cool hair!
WebTV was a web access product consisting of a thin client device which used a television for display (instead of using a computer monitor), and the online service that supported it. The device design and service was developed by WebTV Networks, Inc., a company started in 1995. The WebTV product was announced in July 1996 and later released on September 18, 1996. In April 1997, the company was purchased by Microsoft Corporation and in July 2001, was rebranded to MSN TV and absorbed into MSN.
XBAND (stylized as XBⱯND) was one of the first competitive online console gaming networks and was available for the Genesis and Super NES systems. It was produced by Catapult Entertainment, a Cupertino, California-based software company. It is the only modem released in America to have been officially licensed by Nintendo. It debuted in various areas of the United States in late 1994 and 1995.
