Lurking: How a Person Became a User

One sentence synopsis... The history of the internet - from forums, to Friendster, and eventually Facebook - from the perspective of the user.

Read it if you like... ‘Halt and Catch Fire'. Both the show and this book look at the early stages of building communities online and how the utopian dreams of the World Wide Web have failed to play out in reality.

Further reading... for another personal story told against the backdrop of Silicon Valley and Big Tech try Anna Wiener's ‘Uncanny Valley'.