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  • capjamesg, only early web, and frankly having lived (worked) through a bunch of it, even Cringely tells a very specific subset of a story that ignores A LOT of things happening at the time, like IMO misses the majority of things and excessively/narrowly focuses on a few
    [tantek] at 2025-12-08 20:41
  • The other part is it was growing and expanding really quickly and by 1996 or 1997 it had spread so broadly an author getting their arms around what is relevant as a whole was really difficult. There were many periodicals of the time capturing the whos, companies, and whats rather well and with large volume (Business Insider, Biz 2.0, Industry Standard, Fast Company, etc.). Books about this time turned to mostly turned to writing about companies
    [social] at 2025-12-08 20:30
  • Part of the lack of Web focus is writing and getting a book published and out is a process of around 2 years for books for general consumption. The Web really started to get attention about three or four years in (1995 to 1997) there really wasn’t a lot of focus on it from a techno cultural perspective until around 1998 to 2000. I knew a few journalists and authors that had books about the web and its companies when the Web crash hit in 2000 t
    [social] at 2025-12-08 20:30
  • A really good book that spans early Internet to the Web is “Where Wizards Stay Up Late” by Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon. It gets to the first two or three years of the Web.
    [social] at 2025-12-08 20:20
  • Robert X. Chringely had a book that was a good overview of just pre-web tech in Silicon Valley, “Accidental Empires: How the boys of Silicon Valley make their millions, battle foreign competition, and still can’t get a date”. His web focus was a 3 part tv series, “Nerds 2.0".1: A brief history of the Internet”.
    [social] at 2025-12-08 20:16
  • There are quite a few books about early Internet, but purely web focussed sort of gets skipped over until Web 2.0.
    [social] at 2025-12-08 20:16
  • [capjamesg] I read this long ago and it is mostly a collection of people and technologies of the early web, Architects of the Web, by Robert H. Reid. Its first focus is Netscape with Andreessen (which is a person I have a strong bias about) and was frustrated by that section. I remember liking the others on Rob Glasser and Progressive Networks, Kim Polese and Java, Mark Pesce and VRML, Ariel Poler and I/Pro, Jerry Yang and Yahoo, Andrew Anker
    [social] at 2025-12-08 20:06
  • i watch this channel a lot for learning about the old web. 😄 https://www.youtube.com/@nationsquid/videos
    [Mike_Mai] at 2025-12-08 20:04
  • Is there a "canon" (even informal) of books about the web that one should read?
    capjamesg at 2025-12-08 19:53
  • yeah pretty much if you think you're a beginner at node, best to avoid anything node right now
    [tantek] at 2025-12-08 19:42
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