Download The True Story of the Internet

Download The True Story of the Internet
Genre	Documentary television series
Starring	John Heilemann
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	4
Production
Production company	Oxford Scientific Films
Original release
Network	Science Channel (U.S.); Discovery Channel (other countries)
Release	March 3 (2008-03-03) – March 4, 2008 (2008-03-04)

The correct title of this article is Download: The True Story of the Internet. The omission of the colon is due to technical restrictions.

Download: The True Story of the Internet is a documentary television series about Internet history. It is aired on Science Channel in the US and Discovery Channel for other countries. It originally aired on March 3, 2008. The show was hosted by John Heilemann.

Parts

There are four parts to the documentary:

• Part 1: Browser Wars – The rise and fall of Netscape and its battle against Microsoft
• Part 2: Search – The rise of Google and Yahoo
• Part 3: Bubble – The dot.com crash of 2000 and the mainstays of the Internet: Amazon.com and eBay
• Part 4: People Power – Peer to peer technology, web 2.0, and social networking

Interviews

The documentary features interviews with:

• Marc Andreessen
• James H. Clark
• Shawn Fanning
• Justin Frankel
• Chad Hurley
• Rob McCool
• Lou Montulli
• Thomas Reardon
• Gary Reback
• Hillary Rosen
• Aleks Totic
• Kevin Rose

External links

• https://web.archive.org/web/20090823053456/http://science.discovery.com/tv/download/download.html
• Download The True Story of the Internet at IMDb