How The Internet Happened
Book Review
23October 2020 Arianna Choza
History of the Internet + Computer Democratization + Internet for the people.They called in 'the Information Highway'; it was information at your finger tips.
- Notes from the book
- — Get Big Fast from first bubble, was replaced to scale reliably
- — Transition from understanding the web being more than just "online portals" to websites, and ultimately realizing the power of the internet came from the users, and the community + content they created
- — How was Youtube difference that Napster? Google bought them, with their algorithm able to remove
- — Digital melenia privacy
- — 2008 young people started watching my video online then tv
- — AOL dropped the ball with AIM
- — Friendster grew too fast, it was buggy and slow, plenty of niche replicas moved right in. MySpace took over. Mapping personal connections and taste. Being able to add MP3 files was huge. MySpace allowed users to hack their code, and customize their page
- — Rupert Murdoch dispissed Facebook as competition to MySpace
- — The best way to find the answer to something online, is post the wrong thing then watch and wait for everyone to correct you.
- Reflections on the book
It's been ages since there have been any improvesment on the browser. There used to be competition for dominance, so sever that even lead Microsoft to be sued for monopolitisc competitive practices. Where is the new browser? I have recently heard
- Quotes from the book
- "What if everyone shared everything about themselves. We could all learn from each other"
- "Young People Can see the future before anyone else"
- "A Billion dollars isn't cool. You know what is cool? A Billion users"
- Theories from the book
- — Infinit Monkey Theory
- Virality
- — Lazy Sunday
- Websites had a big impact
- 1992 — www-talk
- 1994 — Yahoo
- 1993 — Pseudo
- 1995 — Ebay
- 1997 — 6 Degrees
- 1998 — Google
- 1998 — PayPal
- 2001 — Napster
- 2003 — MySpace
- 2005 — Youtube