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Triumph of the Nerds
Documentary
1996
Available on Prime Video
Documentary series that shows the insight look at the history of computers, from its rise in the 1970s to the beginning of the Dot-com boom.
Documentary
1996
EPISODE 1
Impressing their Friends
They did it because they were geniuses; they did it because they were addicted to the mental challenge. But mostly they just invented personal computing to impress their friends.
EPISODE 2
Riding the Bear
The IBM PC hit the business world and then the suits meet the nerds. The IBM PC clones invaded the market. A tiny software company called Microsoft tried to cooperate with IBM and then, decided to compete with them.
EPISODE 3
Great Artists Steal
Xerox PARC-a user-friendly technology-was adapted by Steve Jobs for the Macintosh. Then Jobs is fired by the man he hired. Then Windows 95 brought the Graphical User Interface to make pc's friendlier and in the process made Bill Gates the richest man in the world.
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