Code Rush - Netscape Mozilla Documentary 1998 - 2000

Comes with lots of extra footage: http://clickmovement.org/code_rush_footage_nods

It shows how people trade health for little reward in the end. And so many people just go flying under the radar, while they are the real people behind the products we use today.

It's all about the entrepreneurs these days, what happened to those C++ hackers working long into the night?

Ah that's right, they don't look great on magazine covers.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256408/

As a younger person who lives thousands of miles away from Silicon Valley, I'd love to see more video from that time. I read tons about it, but reading and seeing are different things. AS the end of Code Rush, the investment banker who talks about how in a couple years physical banks might not be around and how the GAP shouldn't be renovating its store but rather invest more money in its website said so much about the kind of mania that took place at the time. I'd love to see more.

For example: I'd love if documentarians followed Elon Musk around..

http://waxy.org/2009/07/code_rush_in_the_creative_commons/

if you haven't watched code rush yet, the annotations are really a fantastic addition to it and i'd suggest starting there instead.

edit/comment: the annotations are mostly useful, if like me, you want to rewind to some particular scene when showing part of the film to a friend. i found them pretty useful, but, ymmv :)

Nice catch, thanks for posting this.

"Not all companies succeed, some fail to embrace change. This is the way technology in the free market works. The software industries success has not been driven by government regulation but by freedom and the basic human desire to learn, to innovate, and to excel." ~Bill Gates