Tech expert Brian McCullough delivers a rollicking history of the web, why it exploded, and how it changed everything.

The internet was never designed for you, opines Brian McCullough within this lively narrative of an era that utterly transformed everything we thought we knew about technology. In How the Internet Occurred, he chronicles the complete fascinating tale for the first time, beginning in a dusty Illinois cellar in 1993, when a group of university kids tripped a once-in-an-epoch trend using what would end up being the 1st ‘dotcom.’

Depicting the lives of now-famous innovators like Netscape’s Marc Andreessen and Facebook’s Indicate Zuckerberg, McCullough also discloses amazing quirks and unknown tales as he tracks both technology as well as the culture around the internet’s rise. Cinematic at length and unparalleled in scope, the effect both enlightens and informs since it attracts back the curtain on the new tempo of disruption and advancement the internet fostered, and really helps to redefine an era that changed every part of our lives.