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1. A random collection of Wikipedia snippets
   I am probably the atypical reader of this book. I have been online for over 50 years and been working with the Internet since the early 90s. I had hoped to use this book to help inform the development of a course for seniors on the history of the Internet. My biggest problem with this book is the factual errors. While not major and probably irrelevant as far as the lay person is concerned, I found them irksome and causing me to to question everything I read which did not sound right. Examples:1. “ … but it was, on 29 October 1969. It was the moment that a project signed off by ARPA (formerly DARPA)”. ARPA was formed in 1958 and did not become DARPA until 1972.2. “ The first commercial modem, the Bell 103, was released in the 1960s. It acted as a cradle onto which a phone’s handset was placed, so that the sound signals that came through the receiver could seamlessly be picked up by the modem.” The author seems to conflate the Bell 103 with an acoustic coupler which it is not.3. “This was years before the arrival of iTunes, which launched on 28 April 2003,” iTunes (the app) was launched in January 2001. The author is confusing it with the “iTunes Store” which was launched in 2003 and sold music to be played in the iTunes app.Finally, the whole discussion of Web3 is out of place. Web3 is a nebulous term which is used to describe a bunch of different decentralized, blockchain-based solutions in search of a problem. Except for people who have skin in the blockchain game, no one believes that Web3 is the future of the Internet.

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