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Inside the Book

Chapter 01

The Monad Rebellion

How a rogue engineer named Jeffrey Snover defied Microsoft executives, faced demotion, and secretly built PowerShell to save Windows from Linux.

Chapter 02

The Panic Button

The hilarious true story of Dave Plummer, who built the iconic Windows Task Manager as a secret weekend project in his den and slipped it into the Windows codebase.

Chapter 03

The Ghost in the Machine

Meet the founding fathers of the internet who created the concept of 'localhost' (127.0.0.1) and carved out the private IP addresses that power every home Wi-Fi network.

Chapter 04

The Christmas Hobby

How Guido van Rossum cured his holiday boredom by inventing Python, naming it after a British comedy troupe, and accidentally building the language of the AI revolution.

Chapter 05

The Garage that Changed the World

How Susan Wojcicki rented her garage to Google's founders, bet $1.65 billion on a dorm room lip-sync video, and transformed YouTube into the Creator Economy.

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