hackers heroes of the computer revolution 25th anniversary edition

Rarely does he ask critical questions about the broader costs inherent in the success stories of AOL, Facebook, Google, and Apple. His prose shares the tone of an Epcot attraction in its uncomplicated celebration of new technologies. As well laid out as the book is, McCullough has a troubling tendency to write this history as a utopian triumph. As for those of us intimately familiar with dial up connections, the book largely serves as an easily digestible trip down memory lane that doesn't provide much in the way of new information. The book is most useful for readers who were either too young or disconnected from technology in the 1990s and 2000s to have experienced much of this history firsthand as users. McCullough provides a solid overview of key technologies, trends, and companies in the first two decades of the internet age.

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. 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'.ĭepicting 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.

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. Tech guru Brian McCullough delivers a rollicking history of the Internet, why it exploded, and how it changed everything.

Hackers heroes of the computer revolution 25th anniversary edition