Related thread: `Ask HN: What's the best book on the early history of the Internet and/or Web?`

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19556208

My previous reco: Not a book, but a great video via Steve Blank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo

Also `Bret Victor The Future of Programming`, which is misleading as above is performance piece where title slide reads `1973` https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4