Nina Robinson explores the methods used by activists to create online communities, spearheaded by their charismatic and authentic personalities and hard-hitting visual content. After all, this is a story in which 20-year-olds become overnight billionaires, create, destroy and re-create more wealth in ten years then human race has ever seen, and still struggle to get a date.Internet instigators are organising protests and campaigns using social media and other internet tools and apps to promote their causes. He’s also a personal friend of most of Silicon Valley’s most important characters and he revels in craziness of it all. He’s an edgy, combative, hi-energy New Yorker who never takes anything at face value. You will never surf the net in the same way again.ĭownload is hosted by technology journalist John Heileman. With first-hand testimony from the people that matter, we tell a story that has all the excitement of a thriller - full of battles and back-stabbing, moments of genius and moments of sheer hilarity. The style of the story-telling is up close and personal.
And, how they made untold billions along the way. These extraordinary men and women tell us how they went from being geeky, computer obsessed nerds to being 21st-century visionaries in the time it takes most people to get their first promotion. And for the first time on television, we hear how it happened from the men and women who made it possible.įrom the founders of eBay, Yahoo, Amazon, Netscape, Google and many others, we hear amazing stories of how, in ten short years, the Internet took over our lives.
Download: The True Story of the Internet is about a revolution - the technological, cultural, commercial and social revolution that has radically changed our lives.