Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet
by Stephen Segaller
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Actor: Bill Gates, Robert X. Cringely, Scott McNealy, Steve Ballmer, Steve JobsDirector: Stephen Segaller
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Running Time: 180 minutes
Release Date: 1998-10-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: PBS Home Video
Studio: PBS Home Video
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Movie Review: Trip down memory lane
Summary: 5 Stars
First, Cringley is great, and makes a great documentary. Howerver, years later, in 2007, this documentary is pretty hilarious. What a trip down memory lane before the apocalyptic meltdown of 2000. Its funny hearing, that Excite and Amazon are valued at over "1 billion dollars". I loved the history of how the Internet was actually created by DARPA. Definately worth watching.
Summary of Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet
Join Robert X Cringely in this much-anticipated sequel to Triumph of the Nerds, as he turns his well-informed and irreverent eye on the intriguing history of the Internet. Go deep into the bowels of the Pentagon to witness the birth of the Internet and follow its rapid rise to the cutting edge of the World Wide Web. On his journey, Cringely interviews the unknown nerds who laid the Internet's foundations, visits the Silicon Valley of India and grills the founders of the networking companies who have made millions from this fascinating new technology.Triumph of the Nerds won legions of computer-skeptical and computer-naive viewers with its mix of minutiae and hip techniques. Going one step further into the digital maze, Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet operates as a sequel of sorts to the surprise docu-hit. Just as its precursor chronicled the rise of empires built on computer software, Nerds 2.0.1 collects interviews from key players in the development of the Internet. Fashionably hip in its visual feel, the film begins by amassing data on the net's crowning, collaborative irony: conceived in the Pentagon during the counterculture's smokiest high point by members--dare it be said--of the military industrial complex, the Net developed on the axis of university research networks and Deadhead (as in the Grateful Dead) electronic bulletin boards. Much of the rest has become history, but Internet and computer industry pundit Robert X. Cringley makes the narrative a jumping, attractive embrace of being a nerd. Interviews with Bill Gates, Mark Andreesen, and Steve Case make these three hours (three tapes slipcased in a nice box) fly by. --Andrew Bartlett
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