How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone
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Average rating4.1
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Ratings7
Average rating4.1
"Tech-guru Brian McCullough delivers a rollicking history of the internet, why it exploded, and how it changed everything. The internet was never intended for you, opines Brian McCullough in this lively narrative of an era that utterly transformed everything we thought we knew about technology. In How the Internet Happened, he chronicles the whole fascinating story for the first time, beginning in a dusty Illinois basement in 1993, when a group of college kids set off a once-in-an-epoch revolution with what would become the first "dotcom." Depicting the lives of now-famous innovators like Netscape's Marc Andreessen and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, McCullough also reveals surprising quirks and unknown tales as he tracks both the technology and the culture around the internet's rise. Cinematic in detail and unprecedented in scope, the result both enlightens and informs as it draws back the curtain on the new rhythm of disruption and innovation the internet fostered, and helps to redefine an era that changed every part of our lives"--
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Very well done contemporary history. It has been a wild ride.
The audio narration by Timothy Andrés Pabon was quite well done.
This book provided great insight into a lot of what we call “success stories”. The internet was a slow but gradual journey that took place over the course over a few decades. It helps give a lot of perspective in relation to where we are in crypto.
A very dry but accurate depiction of the internet era. Not much new if you followed/lived this era, but will be very useful for young/future generations and everyone not yet familiar with the history of the internet.
Can recommend if you have gotten an interest in this topic recently, but if you've been following this closely all your life, feel free to skip it.
