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(0)David Kushner
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Award-winning journalist David Kushner tells the incredible battle between the founder of Match.com and the con man who swindled him out of the website Sex.com, resulting in an all-out war for control for what still powers the internet today: love and sex.
In 1994, visionary entrepreneur Gary Kremen used a $2,500 loan to create the first online dating service, Match.com. Only five percent of Americans were using the internet at the time, and even...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A for Anonymous shows how a leaderless band of volunteers successfully used hacktivism to fight for the underdog, embarrass their rich and powerful targets--from Sony and Paypal to the Church of Scientology and Ferguson Police Department--all in the name of freedom of speech and information. Their exploits blurred the distinction between "online" and "reality," and help shape our contemporary world" --
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
David Kushner grew up in the early 1970s in the Florida suburbs. It was when kids still ran free, riding bikes and disappearing into the nearby woods for hours. One morning in 1973, however, everything changed. David's older brother Jon biked through the forest to the convenience store for candy, and never returned. Decades later, now a grown man with kids of his own, Kushner found himself unsatisfied with his own memories and decided to revisit the...
6) Levittown: two families, one tycoon, and the fight for civil rights in America's legendary suburb
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A deep, nostalgic dive into the advent of gaming, Easy to Learn, Difficult to Master returns us to the emerging culture of Silicon Valley. At the center of this graphic history, dynamically drawn in colors inspired by old computer screens, is the epic feud that raged between Atari founder Nolan Bushnell and inventor Ralph Baer for the title of "father of the video game." While Baer, a Jewish immigrant whose family fled Germany for America, developed...
8) Zola
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Blu-ray version.
Language
English
Description
From acclaimed writer-director Janicza Bravo, Zola's stranger-than-fiction saga, first told in a now-iconic series of viral, uproarious tweets, comes to dazzling cinematic life. Zola, a Detroit waitress, is seduced into a weekend of partying in Florida. Her trip turns into a wild saga involving a pimp, an idiot boyfriend, and Tampa's finest strip clubs in this film based on the greatest Twitter story ever told.
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