This New Internet Thing: A Novel (Silicon Valley From the Inside) - Softcover

Book 3 of 3: Silicon Valley From the Inside

Cory, Albert

 
9781736298626: This New Internet Thing: A Novel (Silicon Valley From the Inside)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1736298623 ISBN 13: 9781736298626
Publisher: Robert Purvy, 2024

Synopsis

1990: Being “online” meant a modem squealing, screeching, and tying up your phone. Only geeks had even heard of the Internet. Silicon Valley was flailing for the Next Big Thing.

At 17, Len went alone to New York City in 1942, to discover what happened to his brother. After many years at Chrysler in Detroit, he is retiring and moving to California to be near his daughter, Janet. She is a successful executive, who thinks, “Why would I use a computer at home? I use one all day at work!”

He dips a toe in the internet waters with Prodigy. Intrigued, he moves on to AOL, then bulletin boards. A pastor asks him to find the person stealing money from his charity. “Another mystery to solve!” Janet’s friends help him crack the case, and a comic street fight lands him on TV. Len sees something they can’t: the Internet!

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Publisher
Robert Purvy
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1736298623
ISBN 13 
9781736298626
Binding
Paperback
Illustrator
Sainsbury Jonathan
Number of pages
276