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Perhaps the dot com era is best understood as the gold rush tail of the personal computer then Internet boom. For a feel of what lead into that, you could do w

Perhaps the dot com era is best understood as the gold rush tail of the personal computer then Internet boom. For a feel of what lead into that, you could do worse than binging Halt and Catch Fire. ”Taking place over a period of more than ten years, the series depicts a fictionalized insider's view of the personal computer revolution of the 1980s and the growth of the World Wide Web in the early 1990s.” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(TV_series... Was surprised this wasn’t mentioned in the media roundup, as it captures what it was like for me as part of this better than the documentaries I’ve seen.

ghaff 5y ago
One aspect of the history of the era is that it was also a collision of the PC world and the Internet world which were largely isolated until the Web era. One was hobbyists with BBSs and then (disconnected) PCs in business. (Although the latter was uneven. I worked at a computer company and we used terminals until probably the early 90s.) And the Internet was largely academic until the Web.