Avoid Boring People

Avoid Boring People

How the internet happened

Book summary of internet company founding stories

Leon Lin
Mar 13, 2021
∙ Paid

Takeaway

There's a lot of similarity between early internet trends and things that are popular today, such as the creator economy, communities, and platforms.

Book review

I read How the internet happened by Brian McCullough recently, and it was a good read on the history of consumer internet. The book starts around the origin of Mosaic (one of the first in…

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