Launched in 1969 by UCLA researchers, the Internet was followed by the first e-mails in 1972, and the consumer servers such as America Online in the 1980s. In the infancy of computer networks, overblown predictions and woefully wrong prognostications abounded. This book is one part humour, one part timeline of the phenomenon. It's full of banter, riffs, and one-liners that surprise and entertain us while reminding of how far we've come in so short a time. "Nobody who wasn't a high-energy physicist had even heard of the World Wide Web when I became President. And now even my cat, Socks, has his own page." President Bill Clinton, 1996. Quotes from Bill Gates, Al Gore, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Andrews Grove, Larry Page William Gibson, Marshall McLuhan, Jay Leno, Laurie Anderson, Rupert Murdoch, Douglas Adams, Jack Welch, and even Gertrude Stein are here, along with scores more.
