TV series
Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet
1998 · 1 season
A genial, talky tour through tech history, full of enthusiastic interviews and archival clips that make the birth of the internet feel like a quirky adventure.
- Created by
- Stephen Segaller
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Scott McNealy
- Overview
- Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet is a 1998 three hour American PBS documentary film that explores the development of the Arpanet, the Internet, and the World Wide Web in the United States from 1969 to 1998. It was created during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. The documentary was written and hosted by Robert X. Cringely and is the sequel to the 1996 documentary, Triumph of the Nerds.
- How it feels
- Earnest, light and satirical. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Technology, science, ambition, power
- Content
- Mild language. No violence, gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Created by
- Stephen Segaller
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Scott McNealy
