Ahh, dear. I'm kicking myself as I usually manage to keep my eyes on the archive date and download before they occur, but I somehow managed to miss this one. I have just purchased it as I still want to read it as much as ever, My apologies for missing the archive date.

From the early 60s US military ARPANET which developed the network nodes connecting academics in west coast America in the late 60s. By the early 70s growing to connect computers internationally. In the 90s the internet became accessible to home computer users, and led to the browser wars. Onto the rise of illegal file sharing, then the growth of social media through to streaming content, the internet has come a long way. This book charts the history of the internet.

I’ve been using the internet since my early-adopter parents installed it at home back in 1995. Usenet groups and Netscape Navigator were my introduction to the internet. As a computing teacher I’m always on the lookout for books on the subject that are accessible to students. And this book definitely fits the bill. It’s an easy read, written without lots of technical detail. Anything even slightly technical (for example why an MP3 file size is much reduced) is explained in an easy to understand way. Plus, as the title says, it’s written in bite-size (or byte-size) chunks.
One slight negative is that the author often reads as if he’s not sharing his own contemporaneous experience but what he’s read himself about the period. As it’s fairly recent history it makes it feel a little inauthentic. Also, the Gettysburg address comparison is meaningless to me, it’s not something I studied so as an example doesn’t work. Maybe it’s for an American audience who will have more of an idea. Two minor complaints about what is an accessible history of the internet.