alt Hacker NewsRest in peace Robert X. Cringely. For those interested, the documentary "Triumph of the Nerds" is available on the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/triumph_of_the_nerds
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Also highly recommend watching Nerds 2.0.1 - A Brief History Of The Internet as well: https://archive.org/details/nerds-2.0.1-a-brief-history-of-t...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmbrFFP7bXU
Here's a fun clip. I think this company is the one which eventually became the one behind the excite search engine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf4SKkTEkfU
I think this is also a clip from the same documentary. We had to watch this as part of IT class in high school, everyone laughed pretty hard
I loved this documentary. It really captured what I loved about this job.
Around the time that Triumph of the Nerds came out in 1995 I saw the segment in which Cringely introduces the audience to someone he builds up as "the most dangerous man in Silicon Valley" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP15q-s1yMM . When it was revealed to be Steve Jobs I—a teenage Macintosh fanboy!—thought "what, that has-been? How ridiculous."
Not to be confused as the other Triumph of the Attack of the Clones and Nerd of the Rings:
I first learned of the concept of “buffer bloat” from him, and how artificially limiting your upload bandwidth a bit can avoid huge lag spikes https://www.cringely.com/2011/01/04/2011-predictions-one-wor...