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baal80spamyesterday at 7:53 PM4 repliesview on HN

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


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nmdeadheadtoday at 1:18 PM

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

cube00today at 1:25 PM

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...

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suprjamiyesterday at 8:11 PM

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.

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linguaeyesterday at 8:20 PM

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.