
Download: The True Story of the Internet
The internet's first commercial decade, told by the people who built it. Host John Heileman, a technology journalist with friends throughout Silicon Valley, sits down with the founders of eBay, Yahoo, Amazon, Netscape, and Google to hear how a small computer network turned into a global business in about ten years. The interviews are personal and unguarded: engineers and coders describe going from obscure hobbyists to billionaires almost overnight, and they are candid about the rivalries and betrayals that came with it. The series follows the dot-com boom through its bust, then into the rise of the social media companies that followed, using first-hand testimony rather than narration to carry the history. Heileman pushes past the polished founder-myth answers, asking about the fights and failures as much as the successes. The result is less a tech-history lecture than an oral history of a specific, greedy, inventive decade, told by the twenty-somethings who lived it.