Triumph of the Nerds
Oct. 27th, 2011 08:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
liam_on_linuxI went looking for video interviews of Steve Jobs and found rather more. Many years ago, I read Accidental Empires by "Robert X Cringely". I knew it had been made into a US TV series way back in 1996, but I'd never paid much attention - and I never saw a mention of it on UK TV, not that I am a big TV-watcher.
But all three parts of the adaptation, Triumph of the Nerds, are on Youtube as full-length episodes. None of that painful piecing-together-from-chunks.
Stuffed with marvellous clips of many industry pioneers - not just then-youthful big names such as Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Larry Ellison, John Sculley and so on, but some of the techs from behind the scenes as well: Andy Hertzfeld, Bill Atkinson, John Warnock, Tim Patterson, Gary Kildall and a handful of the IBMers behind the IBM PC.
Well worth 150min of your time.
Sadly, I can't find a single-part version of the sequel, Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet.
Triumph of the Nerds, part 1: Impressing Their Friends.
Triumph of the Nerds, part 2: Riding The Bear.
Triumph of the Nerds, part 3: Great Artists Steal.
Short links...
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFL9IyJ_qHk
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbRmaIzGTOM
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1Bg461mnN8
But all three parts of the adaptation, Triumph of the Nerds, are on Youtube as full-length episodes. None of that painful piecing-together-from-chunks.
Stuffed with marvellous clips of many industry pioneers - not just then-youthful big names such as Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Larry Ellison, John Sculley and so on, but some of the techs from behind the scenes as well: Andy Hertzfeld, Bill Atkinson, John Warnock, Tim Patterson, Gary Kildall and a handful of the IBMers behind the IBM PC.
Well worth 150min of your time.
Sadly, I can't find a single-part version of the sequel, Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet.
Triumph of the Nerds, part 1: Impressing Their Friends.
Triumph of the Nerds, part 2: Riding The Bear.
Triumph of the Nerds, part 3: Great Artists Steal.
Short links...
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFL9IyJ_qHk
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbRmaIzGTOM
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1Bg461mnN8
