'High Stakes, No Prisoners' by Charles Ferguson is very good on the early 90s and the dawn of the web. Ferguson was a government technology policy analyst who

'High Stakes, No Prisoners' by Charles Ferguson is very good on the early 90s and the dawn of the web. Ferguson was a government technology policy analyst who realized very early -- around 1990 -- that the web was going to be a big thing. So he started up Vermeer, which made a web site building tool that eventually became Microsoft FrontPage. Lots of period detail about tech and business in the eary 90s. Ferguson spent vast amounts of time, energy, and frustration explaining to VCs what the Internet was and trying to convince them it would be important. Lots about creating FrontPage at Vermeer with early 90s tools practices and people, then much more about the acquisition by Microsoft. Lots of vivid portraits of particular VCs, tech people, and Microsoft people.