Download: A History of the Internet on Discovery Channel

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Connie Yowell of the MacArthur Foundation has blogged about a great four-part series coming up on the Discovery Channel.   Here's all the information.  It sounds like an incredible series!  Set your TIVO now. 

Download: The True Story of the Internet is about a RevolutionOur good friend at National Science Foundation, Diana Rhoten,has alerted us about an upcoming documentary on the Discovery Channel(produced by her husband, John Heilemann).

Download: The True Story of the Internet is about a revolution?thetechnological, cultural, commercial and social revolution that hasradically changed our lives.

?For the first time on television, we hear how it happened from the men and women who made it possible.

From the founders of eBay, Yahoo, Amazon, Netscape, Google andmany others, we hear amazing stories of how, in ten short years, theInternet took over our lives. These extraordinary men and women tell ushow they went from being geeky, computer obsessed nerds to being21st-century visionaries in the time it takes most people to get theirfirst promotion. And, how they made untold billions along the way.

The style of the story-telling is up close and personal. Withfirst-hand testimony from the people that matter, we tell a story thathas all the excitement of a thriller?full of battles and back-stabbing,moments of genius and moments of sheer hilarity. You will never surfthe net in the same way again.

Download is hosted by technology journalist John Heilemann. He?san edgy, combative, hi-energy New Yorker who never takes anything atface value. He?s also a personal friend of most of Silicon Valley?smost important characters and he revels in craziness of it all. Afterall, this is a story in which 20-year-olds become overnightbillionaires, create, destroy and re-create more wealth in ten yearsthen human race has ever seen, and still struggle to get a date.??Discovery Channel

Dates and Times:
It is a four-part series and will run March 8, 1 5, 22, and 29 (7 pm or 11 pm). 

PART 1?Browser Wars
The story of a battle between America?s mightiest corporation anda small group of computer geeks who?d created a revolutionarytechnology. It?s a battle that would involve the US government, createbillions of dollars of wealth and change all our lives

PART 2?Search
A unique way of finding information revolutionized the Web &in the process created one of the largest companies in the US - Google.This is the story of how it happened.

PART 3?Bubble
Amazon and Ebay - the 2 titans of modern E-Commerce are eachmassively successful and incredibly different. Jeff Bezos & PierreOmidyar tell the story of how their business grew form nothing todominate the global economy and change the way we live our lives

PART 4?People Power
This is the story of the internet has changed society and how a new breed of entrepreneurs are shaping our digital futures.

You can also catch Download on The Science Channel: http://science.discovery.com/tv-schedules/series.html?paid=48.14998.25448.32270.2

More information on the show is available at http://science.discovery.com/tv/download/download.html