Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date

The Friendly Orange Glow : The Untold Story of the PLATO system and the dawn of cyberculture (2017) is a really interesting book about a system few people here would probably have heard of. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34373814-the-friendly-or... (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34373814-the-friendly-orange-glow) How the Internet Happened is very good. The podcast that was created while writing the book is also worth a listen. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38212134-how-the-interne... (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38212134-how-the-internet-happened) Accidental Empires is also very good https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27652.Accidental_Empires

Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date Bob Cringely (This book gets mentioned in Founders At Work... I think one of the Lycos guys had read it?)