@ashley John S. Quarterman's The Matrix is a contemporaneous (publ. 1990) account of early "Computer Networks and Conferencing Systems Worldwide".

It focuses more on the technical, though the introduction is a fascinating take on the impact of the then-nascent networks' capabilities on China's Tienanmen Square protests. FidoNet is amongst the covered networks.

The WWW is not included, for obvious reasons.

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL8574195M/The_Matrix

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