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I absolutely loved his "Triumph of the nerds" trilogy. It's my childhood!

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Me too!

I have a list of similar content here:

https://github.com/superjamie/lazyweb/wiki/General-Tech-Ente...

Haven't updated it in a long time but hope you find something nice.

Thank you for sharing this! Its always fun to realize when either friends or fellow nerds happen to share a MASSIVE intersection of entertainment.

You're missing Dealers of Lightning, a great book about Xerox PARC

That is a good one! The book is already listed. As far as I know there is no video?

Heads up, the link to "The Internet's Own Boy" says it's unavailable because whoever uploaded it changed the setting to private. Which is a shame, because it's a good bio.

EDIT: There's a version of it here: https://youtu.be/3Q6Fzbgs_Lg?si=Sjlu7QOiQJ5e-1ZJ

Thanks for the catch!

For Triumph of the Nerds, Bob spent hours interviewing a few of us at ARDI, my Macintosh emulation company. Mat's is the only voice that made the cut. Our fridge got more air time than I did, but I'm juggling and riding a unicycle for a few seconds. "Those were fun days."

Nice to see Bob back, especially after the gut punch of Cleve Moler's death.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACt6xsMt5Uk&t=456s

I used love watching these over and over again as a kid, taped off TV on VHS, now both up in excellent quality on IA.

Triumph of the Nerds (1996) - https://archive.org/details/triumph_of_the_nerds

Nerds 2.0.1 - A Brief History Of The Internet (1998) - https://archive.org/details/nerds-2.0.1-a-brief-history-of-t...

They’re “triumph of the nerds”really good. Really gets to the pivotal points in business.

The story of how MS got the operating system contract told by Gates/Balmer and the IBM executives. (MS at the time didn’t have an operating system, just software)

Also includes the Apple tour of Xerox research told by Steve Jobs and some of the xerox folks.

Worth a watch. Transcripts if you want to read: (part 2 is the IBM entering the business)

https://www.pbs.org/nerds/transcript.html

Looks like it is better quality than the dvd I have. Says upscaled to 4k but not sure if from original.

I would love to see a follow-up series that covers the dot com bust, the revival of Silicon Valley’s tech industry thanks to mobile and cloud tech, and the modern AI boom, starting with deep neural networks ran on GPUs and culminating with large language models.

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