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Robert Cringley has another PBS Special on Nerds and how we have taken over the world and influenced the lives of everyone on the planet.

Four 27 year-olds from Stanford and Berkeley formed a company named Sun and built networkable workstations that could crunch numbers faster than many mainframes. Taking advantage of Metcalfe’s invention, four programmers in Utah wrote a network operating system (Netware) and resurrected Novell Systems into a multi-billion dollar software company. A married couple working at Stanford developed an improved way to connect different networks together and operated a multi-million dollar company, named Cisco, from their house until venture capitalists took over and propelled it to a multi-billion dollar business. Source: PBS

Its an interesting overview of just how computers and people have turned a former military project into something that touches the lives of just about everyone on the planet in one form or another regardless of realization of it or not.

While tech has its boom and bust cycles, as the geeks start wiring the world for web 3.0, and are in stealth mode doing so, the PBS overview is an interesting viewpoint of where we have been and what we have been doing to get to today. The good part, there is just no end in sight as we keep on moving along and bringing the word to everywhere we have an agenda, or a thought.

Overall it makes for an interesting tour down memory lane, and is something that is worth checking out.

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