How the Internet Happened
Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence and Power on the Internet
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A concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from—for the first time—the point of view of the user.
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As the web grew, its linking structure accumulated a mind-boggling value. It treated the aggregate of all its contents as a huge compost of ideas, any one of which could be reached by the act of connecting one document to another.