“This firsthand, in-depth account of the World Wide Web’s earliest “start-up” years will cause you to re-think everything you think you know about the Web, start-up culture, and how it all came to be.”
At the start of 1993, no one had heard of the World Wide Web, but by the middle of 1995 it had turned Wall Street, Silicon Valley and the media world upside down.
How the Web Won reveals many previously untold details behind the dramatic emergence of the World Wide Web and how it came along just in time to thwart the last step of Bill Gates’ plan for permanent dominion over all the world’s personal computers.
Was the Web a planned resistance on the part of a handful of digital rebels or was its unlikely and unexpected appearance one of the happiest accidents in human history? Or a mixture of both?
Unlike other Internet histories, How the Web Won focuses on the Web’s critical formative years, 1993 to 1995, and does it in a comprehensive way that no other author has yet attempted. The narrative is animated by the previously untold story of how a flash of insight into the commercial value of clicks broke a logjam and transformed the Internet into the multi-trillion-dollar marketplace we know today.
Stories from the formative years of the Web rarely, if ever, told about Marc Andreessen and Netscape, Tim Bernes-Lee and CERN, Bill Gates and Microsoft, San Francisco’s pioneering digital multimedia community, Wired, the pre-Internet BBS culture, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak’s early Apple days, and one of the world’s most influential, and almost never discussed, tech incubators.
Fully indexed and accompanied by unique documents and other artifacts from the era.
