I just finished Weaving the Web by Tim BL.<p>Liked the tech history story-time vibe a lot more than I was expecting.<p>Looking for something similar or slightly more hacky ("hacky") whatever that might mean.
I have Issacson’s The Innovators in queue but haven’t started it yet. The following I’ve read:<p>Hackers by Levy,
Soul of the Machine by Kidder,
The Cuckoo’s Egg by Stoll,
Turing’s Cathedral by Dyson<p>All are older but give a good perspective of the early days of the computer revolution.