Description
Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet
(1998) is a three-hour documentary film written and hosted by Mark
Stephens under the pseudonym Robert X. Cringely and produced by Oregon
Public Broadcasting for PBS.
A sequel to Triumph of
the Nerds, Nerds 2.0.1 documents the development of
ARPANET, the Internet, the World Wide Web and the dot-com bubble of the
mid and late 1990s.
It was broadcast two years
prior to the collapse of the dot-com bubble.
The
documentary was later turned into a book of the same title by series
director Stephen Segaller.
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