How the Internet Happened
From Netscape to the Iphone
WW Norton · Print & ebook · October 23, 2018
A Library Journal Best Book of the Year Tech-guru Brian McCullough delivers a rollicking history of the internet, why it exploded, and how it changed everything.
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- Who it’s for
- A lively history of the internet’s rise, where technological shifts meet the culture they remade.
- Themes
- Internet history, Technology and culture, Disruption and innovation
- Pacing
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A Library Journal Best Book of the Year 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.
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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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A lively history of the internet’s rise, where technological shifts meet the culture they remade.
Come here for
- Technology’s origin story alongside the culture that grew around it
- Familiar innovators, plus lesser-known quirks and tales
Expect
- A narrative moving between technological change and cultural consequence
- Cinematic detail across the internet’s rise
Where it sits
| History of Computing | 63% |
|---|---|
| Internet & Web | 45% |
| History of Technology | 39% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Software Development
- Inventions
- Authors
- Brian McCullough
- Publisher
- WW Norton
- Published
- October 23, 2018
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Internet history · Technology and culture · Disruption and innovation
- Reading lane
- Software Development