Nerds 2.0.1 (1998)

Original title

Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet

Directed by

Stephen Segaller

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 3 episodes

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary tells the story of how the internet and the world wide web were created from 1969 to 1998. It covers the development of early networks like ARPANET and the people who built them. The host guides viewers through this tech history.

informativefast-pacednostalgiceducationallivelyexploratoryconversational

What happens

Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet – also known as Glory of the Geeks – is a 1998 American PBS television documentary that explores the development of the ARPANET, the Internet, and the World Wide Web from 1969 to 1998. It was created during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. The documentary was hosted and co-written by Robert X. Cringely (Mark Stephens), and is the sequel to the 1996 documentary, Triumph of the Nerds. It was first broadcast as Glory of the Geeks in three episodes on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom, and as Nerds 2.0.1 by PBS in the United States. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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