The Internet's Filthy Roots

摘要

Most of us think of the business leaders behind the modern internet as clean-cut, scientifically minded overachievers, such as Amazon.corn's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, and Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin. But as David Kushner writes in The Players Ball: A Genius, a Con Man, and the Secret History of the Internet's Rise, their arrival followed a tumultuous period when the web was a Wild West and less refined characters made fortunes by staking claims wherever and however they could.