How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone Audiobook (Free)

Tech expert Brian McCullough delivers a rollicking background of the web, why it exploded, and exactly how it changed everything.

The internet was never intended for you, opines Brian McCullough in this lively narrative of a time that utterly transformed everything we thought we knew about technology. In How the Internet Happened, he chronicles the whole fascinating tale for the first time, from a dusty Illinois basement in 1993, whenever a group of college kids tripped a once-in-an-epoch trend using what would become the 1st ‘dotcom.’

Depicting the lives of now-famous innovators like Netscape’s Marc Andreessen and Facebook’s Indicate Zuckerberg, McCullough also shows astonishing quirks and unknown tales as he tracks both technology and the culture across the internet’s rise. Cinematic at length and unparalleled in scope, the result both enlightens and informs since it attracts back the drape on the new tempo of disruption and technology the web fostered, and helps to redefine an era that changed all of our lives.