Even more recent history is forgotten. Tech wasn't culturally central in 2008! It was only after the iPhone and the financial crisis that the true rise of the internet happened. McCullough's book is good on the lead up to this.

Best history I’ve read on the 1990-2000s era of the Web. For those of us who lived through it, it’s a really fun refresher. For others, it’s a quick and useful history lesson.