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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] 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
  • So I read the words, but I think I'm too much of a beginner to really understand. In my project, I use a framework called "Astro" and it requires a download of Node.js. Is that what's considered "npm"? I do use npm in the command line for astro-related stuff.
    snowlesstaco at 2025-12-08 19:32
  • This is a little over my head, so if anyone might have guidance, please let me know!
    snowlesstaco at 2025-12-08 19:32
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