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How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone
by Brian McCullough
Description: How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone traces the development of the internet from its early browsers to the rise of smartphones, detailing key events and technologies that shaped its growth and influence
ISBN: 1631493078
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repelsteeltje · 2024-05-03 · Original thread
Brian McCullough's book How the Internet Happened (https://www.amazon.com/How-Internet-Happened-Netscape-iPhone...) angles this in terms of the centralized digital superhighway versus the open distributed internet. (Where thin clients, set top boxes, etc. are in the first group and web browsers and WWW protocol are the second.)

Essentially, by 2005 the open internet had won, but the iPhone (or more precisely: the App store) became the dream of a thin client and became the platform NCs had initially targeted — turning the internet into a walled garden with a vengeance.

btseytlin · 2023-07-05 · Original thread
Really enjoyed this read!

https://www.amazon.com/How-Internet-Happened-Netscape-iPhone...