Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Ebook445 pages11 hours
Totally Wired: The Rise and Fall of Josh Harris and The Great Dotcom Swindle
By Andrew Smith
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
From award-winning journalist Andrew Smith, the never before told story of the late 1990s dot-com bubble, its tumultuous crash, and the rise and fall of the visionary pioneer at its epicenter.
One morning in February 2001, internet entrepreneur Josh Harris woke to certain knowledge that he was about to lose everything. The man Time magazine called “The Warhol of the Web” was now reduced to the role of helpless spectator as his personal fortune dwindled from 85 million dollars, to 50 million, to nothing, all in the space of a week.
Harris had been New York’s first net millionaire, a maverick genius so preternaturally adapted to the fluid virtualities of the new online world that he saw it with a clarity almost no one else did. He founded the city’s first dotcom, Pseudo.com, and paved the way for a cadre of net-savvy twentysomethings to follow, riding a wave of tech euphoria to unimagined wealth and fame for five years, before losing it all in the great dotcom crash of 2000, in which Web 1.0 was wiped from the face of the earth. Long before then, however, Harris’s view of where the web would take us had darkened, and he began a series of lurid social experiments aimed at illustrating his worst fear: that the internet would soon alter the very fabric of society—cognitive, social, political, and otherwise.
In Totally Wired, award-winning author and journalist Andrew Smith seeks to unravel the opaque and mysterious episodes of the twentieth century dotcom craze, in which the seeds of our current reality were sown. Drawing on in-depth interviews with Harris and the former pioneers who worked alongside him in downtown Manhattan's "Silicon Alley," the narrative moves from a compound in the wild south of Ethiopia, through New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas, London and Salt Lake City, Utah; from the dawn of the web to the present, taking in the rise of retro-truth, troll society, the unexpected origins of the net itself, as our world has grown uncannily to resemble the one Harris predicted—and had urged us to evade.
One morning in February 2001, internet entrepreneur Josh Harris woke to certain knowledge that he was about to lose everything. The man Time magazine called “The Warhol of the Web” was now reduced to the role of helpless spectator as his personal fortune dwindled from 85 million dollars, to 50 million, to nothing, all in the space of a week.
Harris had been New York’s first net millionaire, a maverick genius so preternaturally adapted to the fluid virtualities of the new online world that he saw it with a clarity almost no one else did. He founded the city’s first dotcom, Pseudo.com, and paved the way for a cadre of net-savvy twentysomethings to follow, riding a wave of tech euphoria to unimagined wealth and fame for five years, before losing it all in the great dotcom crash of 2000, in which Web 1.0 was wiped from the face of the earth. Long before then, however, Harris’s view of where the web would take us had darkened, and he began a series of lurid social experiments aimed at illustrating his worst fear: that the internet would soon alter the very fabric of society—cognitive, social, political, and otherwise.
In Totally Wired, award-winning author and journalist Andrew Smith seeks to unravel the opaque and mysterious episodes of the twentieth century dotcom craze, in which the seeds of our current reality were sown. Drawing on in-depth interviews with Harris and the former pioneers who worked alongside him in downtown Manhattan's "Silicon Alley," the narrative moves from a compound in the wild south of Ethiopia, through New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas, London and Salt Lake City, Utah; from the dawn of the web to the present, taking in the rise of retro-truth, troll society, the unexpected origins of the net itself, as our world has grown uncannily to resemble the one Harris predicted—and had urged us to evade.
Unavailable
Author
Andrew Smith
Andrew Smith has worked as a broadcast commentator and an investigative feature writer for publications including The Face, The Guardian, and the Sunday Times. He has also written and presented radio series and films for the BBC, including the acclaimed documentary Being Neil Armstrong. He lives with his wife, Jan, in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Read more from Andrew Smith
Winger Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stand-Off Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rabbit & Robot Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Exile from Eden: Or, After the Hole Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Totally Wired: The Rise and Fall of Josh Harris and the Great Dotcom Swindle Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Size of the Truth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The ghost story 1840–1920: A cultural history Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Water from the Rock Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFirst People: The Lost History of the Khoisan Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRomancing the Stove: Celebrated Recipes and Delicious Fun for Every Kitchen Goddess Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBye-bye, Blue Creek Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGuardians of the Backwater Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Counselling Partners and Relatives of Individuals who have Sexually Offended: A Strengths-Focused Eclectic Approach Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGothic death 1740–1914: A literary history Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Totally Wired
Related ebooks
Tiger Paw Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSewer, Gas & Electric Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Going Green Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCome and Take It: The Gun Printer's Guide to Thinking Free Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Mysterious Affair at the Met Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWordslinger: The Life and Times of a Newspaper Junkie Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRendezvous with Oblivion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Practice: Journalism, Essays and Criticism Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Go-Go Years: The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Street's Bullish 60s Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Very Public Offering: The Story of theglobe.com and the First Internet Revolution Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRendezvous with Oblivion: Reports from a Sinking Society Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cyberpunk Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Probability Broach Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Crucible: A Sigma Force Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Voices Everywhere: The Mysterious Doris Stokes Effect Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHail to the Fraud: mposters and Cheats, Fakes and Hoaxes, Politicians and False Elections Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBehind The Mask: An Inside Look At Anonymous Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wall Street Noir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The London Apprentice Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings1916: The Blog Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMaking Conversation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Among the Fallen: Genesis Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSatanstoe by James Fenimore Cooper - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSmells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Kitty Genovese: A True Account of a Public Murder and Its Private Consequences Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Operation Mindfuck: QAnon and the Cult of Donald Trump Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Biography & Memoir For You
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Stolen Life: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good Girls Don't Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Becoming Bulletproof: Protect Yourself, Read People, Influence Situations, and Live Fearlessly Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jack Reacher Reading Order: The Complete Lee Child’s Reading List Of Jack Reacher Series Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Diary of a Young Girl Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: the heartfelt, funny memoir by a New York Times bestselling therapist Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wiseguy: The 25th Anniversary Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ivy League Counterfeiter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Hilarious World of Depression Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Leonardo da Vinci Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Meditations: Complete and Unabridged Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mommie Dearest Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Wright Brothers Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Just Mercy: a story of justice and redemption Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Simple Faith of Mister Rogers: Spiritual Insights from the World's Most Beloved Neighbor Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Taste: My Life Through Food Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of Eating Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5People, Places, Things: My Human Landmarks Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for Totally Wired
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews