Dot.Con: The Greatest Story Ever Sold

Title: Dot.Con: The Greatest Story Ever Sold Author: John Cassidy ISBN: 9780060008802 Publisher: Harper Published: 2002 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: Used: Very Good G 1625592 Publisher Description: When Vannevar Bush, Franklin D. Roosevelt's chief scientific adviser, sat down in 1945 to write a magazine article about the future, he had no idea what he was beginning. Bush's vision of a desktop computer that would contain all of human knowledge inspired the scientists who built the Internet. In the early 1990s, when a British computer programmer devised the World Wide Web and an Illinois student invented an easy-to-use Web browser, the Internet was transformed from a scientific curiosity into the biggest gold rush since the Klondike. In Dot.con, John Cassidy, one of the country's leading financial journalists and a staff writer at the New Yorker, relates the stories