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this is a fundamental flaw in the "canonical books about the web" approach IMO
[tantek]
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2025-12-08 20:43
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there's been a bunch of folks trying to tell such histories / stories, but also deliberately leave out key contributors they "don't like" or want to deliberately de-emphasize. it's not great
[tantek]
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2025-12-08 20:42
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re: Nerds 2.0
[tantek]
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2025-12-08 20:41
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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]
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2025-12-08 20:41
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2001 and that had all the books cancelled
[social]
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2025-12-08 20:30
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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]
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2025-12-08 20:30
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(Apple, Google, Xerox Parc, etc.) as they were more contained. There were also books about start-ups and start-up culture, but not as much about the Web itself
[social]
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2025-12-08 20:30
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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]
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2025-12-08 20:30
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capjamesg
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2025-12-08 20:21
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[social] has 4 karma in this channel over the last year (25 in all channels
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2025-12-08 20:21
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