This document provides a brief history of digital culture prior to 2007, beginning with early technologies like the Memex and ARPAnet. It discusses the growth of hacker culture and phone phreaking communities. The Whole Earth Catalog is noted for promoting personal empowerment through independent learning. Bulletin board systems and Usenet grew in popularity in the late 70s-90s, alongside early consumer online services. The document traces the commercial "selling" of the Internet throughout the 80s and 90s. It also covers the rise of dot-com companies, peer-to-peer technologies, open source software, and the dot-com bust of the early 2000s. Finally, it mentions the emergence of Web 2.0 and