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Connie Yowell of the MacArthur Foundation has blogged about a great four-part series coming up on the Discovery Channel. Here's all the information. It sounds like an incredible series! Set your TIVO now.

Download: The True Story of the Internet is about a revolution?the technological, cultural, commercial and social revolution that has radically changed our lives.

?For the first time on television, we hear how it happened from the men and women who made it possible.

From the founders of eBay, Yahoo, Amazon, Netscape, Google and many others, we hear amazing stories of how, in ten short years, the Internet took over our lives. These extraordinary men and women tell us how they went from being geeky, computer obsessed nerds to being 21st-century visionaries in the time it takes most people to get their first promotion. And, how they made untold billions along the way.

The style of the story-telling is up close and personal. With first-hand testimony from the people that matter, we tell a story that has all the excitement of a thriller?full of battles and back-stabbing, moments of genius and moments of sheer hilarity. You will never surf the net in the same way again.

Download is hosted by technology journalist John Heilemann. He?s an edgy, combative, hi-energy New Yorker who never takes anything at face value. He?s also a personal friend of most of Silicon Valley?s most important characters and he revels in craziness of it all. After all, this is a story in which 20-year-olds become overnight billionaires, create, destroy and re-create more wealth in ten years then human race has ever seen, and still struggle to get a date.? ?Discovery Channel

Dates and Times:
It is a four-part series and will run March 8, 1 5, 22, and 29 (7 pm or 11 pm).

PART 1?Browser Wars
The story of a battle between America?s mightiest corporation and a small group of computer geeks who?d created a revolutionary technology. It?s a battle that would involve the US government, create billions of dollars of wealth and change all our lives

PART 2?Search
A unique way of finding information revolutionized the Web & in the process created one of the largest companies in the US - Google. This is the story of how it happened.

PART 3?Bubble
Amazon and Ebay - the 2 titans of modern E-Commerce are each massively successful and incredibly different. Jeff Bezos & Pierre Omidyar tell the story of how their business grew form nothing to dominate the global economy and change the way we live our lives

PART 4?People Power
This is the story of the internet has changed society and how a new breed of entrepreneurs are shaping our digital futures.

You can also catch Download on The Science Channel: http://science.discovery.com/tv-schedules/series.html?paid=48.14998.25448.32270.2

More information on the show is available at http://science.discovery.com/tv/download/download.html