On Saturday 1st Feb, I did another FOSDEM talk in the History stream. (I was, in fact, the end of history.)

Here's the presentation that I made, with speakers' notes. It's a LibreOffice Impress file. I'll add a video link when I get it.

If you prefer plain text, well, here's the script... LibreOffice Writer or MS Word format.

UPDATE: in theory, there should be video here. It seems not to be available just yet, though.

https://video.fosdem.org/2020/Janson/generation_gaps.mp4
https://video.fosdem.org/2020/Janson/generation_gaps.webm

Here is my previous FOSDEM talk from 2018, if you're interested.

I 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.

( Embedded videos behind the cut. )

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