Ask HN: What's the best book on the early history of the Internet and/or Web?

It's a very well written book and gives great insight into the pre-web era of networking

The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop

I re-read it for the first time since it came out, it aged way better than Gen-X did for me.

you might enjoy Microserfs.

Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet By Katie Hafner & Matthew Lyon

Reading this now and agree that it's very well-written.

pretty great when combined with 'The dream machine' as suggested by others.

Walter Isaacson's innovators is that book

'Innovators' by Walter Isaacson is pretty great

Close to the machine by Ellen Ullman

The Nudist On The Late Shift is a great one.

What Will Be - From Old president of MIT

Where wizards stay up late by katie hafner Highly readable, don't know about insight, don't know about accuracy.