How the Internet Happened
From kwharrison13.com · Anti-library
How the Internet Happened
| Full title | How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone |
|---|---|
| Author | Brian McCullough |
| Published | 2018 |
| Pages | 371 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Brian McCullough’s narrative history of the commercial internet from the Netscape IPO through the dot-com bust, Google, Facebook and the iPhone. Its virtue is chronology: it puts the famous episodes in the order they actually happened, which most retellings do not. |
Where I heard about it
- Replies to @WillManidis — an answer when he asked “what is the single best book you can read that will explain an entire industry?” in his thread, June 2025. The full set of replies is on what is the single best book… (tweet).
About this edition
Written out of the interviews McCullough recorded for his Internet History Podcast.
Connections
- what is the single best book… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- Silicon Valley — the setting.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.