LIVERIGHT How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone

Book Quality :Hardcover, Pages, Print & Font: 10/10.Contents:As a tech enthusiast, This has been a fantastic read, The author sets up the pace with crisp data points and exciting details of the tech industry from the 1990s to the almost current scenario.I can highly relate to this book in the current years i.e. 2022 in the Indian tech startup space.The Hype, The IPOs, The potential bust if there is.Beautifully written and a must-read to understand the Web 2.0 landscape, which can help you prep for the Web 3.0 scene.

Wahrscheinlich bin ich voreingenommen – denn ich war dabei.Ich war im Internet, vor Mosaic und Netscape, vor Yahoo und Google, als man die unendlichen Weiten noch mit „gopher“ und „ftp“ von der Kommandozeile aus erforschte.Mir macht das Buch unendlich viel Spaß, denn ich weiß noch als da plötzlich das neue Ding, ein „Browser“, war und Farbe in die Welt des Internets kam. Ich erinnere mich an meine erste Bestellung bei amazon.com, die ersten deutschen Nachrichtenseiten im Web, und wie nach und nach „das Intrenet“ passierte.Es ist herrlich die Hintergrundgeschichten zu lesen die Brian McCullough über Jahre in Interviews zusammengetragen hat. Vieles davon kann man auch in seinem Podcast „Internet History Podcast“ nachhören, aber eben nicht alles. Denn während dort die Länge der Folgen beschränkt war und sich auch aus dem Gesprächsfluss der Interviews nicht immer die exakte Chronologie verfolgen läßt, so sind hier auf 300+ Seiten viele Hintergründe, auf 30+ Seiten unzählige Quellenangaben und auf 15 Seiten ein ausführliches Stichvortverzeichnis sodass es vieles Neues zu entdecken gibt.EIn sehr schönes Buch. Vielleicht auch ein sehr wichtiges Buch. In jedem Fall eine lohnende Investition.

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Brian is doing an excellent job with his "Internet History Podcast" and has done a fantastic job with this book. Katie Haffner's Book "Where Wizards Stay Up Late" tells much of the early part of the story, although it misses the classified aspects that were tied into the Minuteman Missile System. But, between these two books is a huge hole with respect to how the networking of personal computers in the 1980's using systems like Novell Netware and AppleTalk were transformed to use TCP/IP all the way to the desktop. The internet had to change and PC networking had to change. In short, the two had to embrace each other, and do so in the face of concerted resistance by all of the most powerful technical companies of the day, who had the support of the US government for an alternate path toward an "information super highway." So, the sum of these two books simply doesn't get you there. Thus, the title is extremely misleading. It should be more like: "How the Internet Happened - Part III." Katie's book would be Part I. Part II has yet to be written.

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.