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
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