Title: How the Internet Happened Pdf
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.
Fantastic unique resource, especially for those in technology oriented pursuits The author’s podcast is a goldmine of information for anyone seeking to understand technology and business, and given that software, network effects and connectivity will remain fixtures of technology and business for at least the next few decades, anyone seeking to make a meaningful impact in the world using technology.And this book is the essence of that podcast, distilled into pure nuggets of value, that can be consumed quickly and efficiently (there are so many interesting things to read and do in this world), and you can dive back to the podcast (which is free!) for more depth and context from the people who actually did this stuff.For those not in the Bay Area with networks of people who were there since Fairchild, but who need to compete with them, I know of no other resource remotely in the ballpark comparable to this book and the podcast.Unequivocal recommendation to buy the book, *especially* for the benefit of kids coming through school who take the internet and WWW as a part of the firmament and need to know more about these technologies and their evolution.A superb book about the birth of the commercial internet How the Internet Happened (2018) by Brian McCullough is a really excellent look at how the commercial internet grew from the early 1990s until the launch of the iPhone. While writing the book McCullough recorded the interviews he did with people and released them as ‘The Internet History Podcast’. Critically McCullough also founded and co-founded a number of companies so he really knows about his subject.The books starts with the history of Mosaic and other early web browsers. Then Microsoft’s realisation of the importance of the internet. Netscape’s rise and fall is carefully covered. AOL, Ebay, Amazon and Yahoo and the early tech boom companies are then described in detail. Google’s birth, the bursting of the bubble and the how Google monetized internet advertising are the next subject. The book dives into mp3s and the iPod. The revitalisation of the internet companies after the ‘Nuclear Winter’ of the early 2000s and the rise of web 2.0 and social media are then covered. Finally the rise of the mobile internet with the launch of the iPhone is where the book ends.It would be very hard to read this book and not learn a lot. The details of the browser wars and how Google actually worked out how to make money are really interesting. Due to his inside knowledge and careful research McCullough manages to capture the zeitgeist of the times he writes about.The podcast has quite a bit that the book doesn’t including interviews with other computer historians and more detail on some subjects than the book. But the book has been well edited and the most important parts kept.The book is probably going to become the default reference for the birth of the mass commercial internet. Just as Triumph of the Nerds by Robert X Cringely is the book to describe the rise of the PCs in the 1980s. McCullough has done a really great job with the book. Like Cringely he has the great advantage of being part of what he writes about. He’s also done a fantastic job interviewing the subjects for the book. Listening to the podcast is a delight for anyone interested in the history of technology. The book and podcast really are fantastic.Finally, a complete narrative of the internet age I lived through this era of internet history, and worked in the industry, but I've never seen a book like this one. McCullough makes a coherent narrative out of how the web happened, and how the business and technical narrative intertwine. While I've often seen bits and pieces of these stories, this is the first book to put it all together and make sense of it.If you read this book and want more, McCullough has released a ton of the source interview material via his Internet History Podcast. In many cases, those narratives are a really fun complement to the book. I'd particularly recommend the ones with Jan Brandt, who brought the world the AOL CD.I'd recommend this for anybody interested in technology, business, general history, or late-20th century American history.
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