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
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jamal-kumar · · focus · HN ↗
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