Marcus Webb

Technology History, Digital Culture & the Early Internet

Age 55 · Retired software engineer and early internet pioneer

I wrote my first line of code in 1983 on a Commodore 64 my parents bought thinking it would help me with homework. It did not help with homework. It changed my entire life. I spent 30 years in software development, lived through the dot-com boom and bust, and watched the internet go from something you explained to your relatives at Thanksgiving to something that runs every moment of their day. I retired at 54 to write about what it was actually like to be in the room when the modern world was being invented. Spoiler: we had no idea what we were doing.