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Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died

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kickingvegas · 1791097604 · focus · HN ↗
Rest in peace Robert X. Cringely. For those interested, the documentary "Triumph of the Nerds" is available on the Internet Archive. <a href="https://archive.org/details/triumph_of_the_nerds" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/triumph_of_the_nerds
1. DonHopkins · 1791102245 · focus · HN ↗
  Not to be confused as the other Triumph of the Attack of the Clones and Nerd of the Rings:
  <a href="https://youtu.be/YKT7bx-fmtk?t=77" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/YKT7bx-fmtk?t=77
  1. DANmode · 1791145636 · focus · HN ↗
    Might as well throw Revenge of the Nerds on the “avoid confusion with” pile, lol
2. cellularmitosis · 1791102355 · focus · HN ↗
  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 <a href="https://www.cringely.com/2011/01/04/2011-predictions-one-word-bufferbloat-or-is-that-two-words/" rel="nofollow">https://www.cringely.com/2011/01/04/2011-predictions-one-wor...
3. jpollock · 1791109759 · focus · HN ↗
  I loved this documentary. It really captured what I loved about this job.
  1. logicalmind · 1791150536 · focus · HN ↗
    Same here. I found it highly inspiring as a young developer. Whenever I lacked motivation in my career, I would rewatch it.
4. jamal-kumar · 1791114015 · focus · HN ↗
  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmbrFFP7bXU" rel="nofollow">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
  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf4SKkTEkfU" rel="nofollow">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
5. leoc · 1791141500 · focus · HN ↗
  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" <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP15q-s1yMM" rel="nofollow">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."
6. Bluecobra · 1791146533 · focus · HN ↗
  Also highly recommend watching Nerds 2.0.1 - A Brief History Of The Internet as well: <a href="https://archive.org/details/nerds-2.0.1-a-brief-history-of-the-internet-1998" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/nerds-2.0.1-a-brief-history-of-t...

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