Comment by cube00

1 day ago

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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acomjean  1 day ago

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

mixmastamyk  1 day ago

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