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🔥 The Accidental Network: How a Small Company Sparked a Global Broadband TransformationFirst Edition • Technology History • Internet Innovation • Collectible Hardcover
Before smartphones, streaming, online work, and modern digital life, one invention changed everything: the cable modem.
The Accidental Network tells the untold story of how a tiny, cash-strapped startup—LANcity—revolutionized global connectivity and built the foundation for the broadband era.
Entrepreneur Rouzbeh Yassini-Fard, now known as the father of the cable modem, overcame enormous technical challenges, industry skepticism, and relentless financial pressure to prove that fast, always-on internet access could be delivered to every home. In the early 1990s, when most people still struggled with dial-up speeds of 56 Kbps, Yassini-Fard and his small team created a breakthrough that would push internet speeds from mere kilobits to 10 gigabits and beyond.
This book is part technology biography, part business thriller, and part origin story of the modern online world. Through vivid storytelling, it shows how innovation, determination, and a little-known startup sparked a global broadband transformation—despite venture capital rejection, industry disbelief, and the technological odds stacked against them.
Readers will gain a fascinating look into:
✔ The birth of the cable modem
✔ The invention of the DOCSIS standard
✔ How broadband became a worldwide norm
✔ The entrepreneurial journey behind a multibillion-dollar industry
✔ The behind-the-scenes battles that shaped the modern internet
Perfect for technology lovers, entrepreneurs, business students, engineers, and anyone interested in how today’s connected world was built.
