I would love to see a follow-up series that covers the dot com bust, the revival of Silicon Valley’s tech industry thanks to mobile and cloud tech, and the modern AI boom, starting with deep neural networks ran on GPUs and culminating with large language models.
For Triumph of the Nerds, Bob spent hours interviewing a few of us at ARDI, my Macintosh emulation company. Mat's is the only voice that made the cut. Our fridge got more air time than I did, but I'm juggling and riding a unicycle for a few seconds. "Those were fun days."
Nice to see Bob back, especially after the gut punch of Cleve Moler's death.
Skimming through his posts he was also “back” to writing in 2023. Looks like he wrote 2 things then. Maybe he’ll do a longer run this time, maybe a good half dozen posts before another 3 year break?
Okay, bunch of memories came back of getting PBS's online presence going on AvantGo (one of the predecessors to "mobile web") and getting I, Cringely's column hosted on it...
Including all the mentally unwell people/trolls in the comments who have become obsessed with Bob's Minecraft server project that did not work out.
Their righteous indignation will valiantly carry forth forever! Let them never stop obsessing! "But it matters!" "It's really important!" "He's a liar, and boy our society is collapsing because of liars!". Urghh. They are in the comments here too, riding high white horses.
This goes back a LONG way for me. I really enjoyed his Notes From The Field column in InfoWorld, which was both reliably funny and reliably interesting, from around 1987-1995.
Oh, nice! I have been wondering what was going on with Cringely for years. I was worried it was a health issue and am relieved to hear that that seems to not have been the case.
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[ 0.26 ms ] story [ 54.5 ms ] threadI have a list of similar content here:
https://github.com/superjamie/lazyweb/wiki/General-Tech-Ente...
Haven't updated it in a long time but hope you find something nice.
Nice to see Bob back, especially after the gut punch of Cleve Moler's death.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACt6xsMt5Uk&t=456s
Triumph of the Nerds (1996) - https://archive.org/details/triumph_of_the_nerds
Nerds 2.0.1 - A Brief History Of The Internet (1998) - https://archive.org/details/nerds-2.0.1-a-brief-history-of-t...
Edit: some of these are still up there!
http://feeds.pbs.org/pbs/cringely/pulpit-audio
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0164814/
Their righteous indignation will valiantly carry forth forever! Let them never stop obsessing! "But it matters!" "It's really important!" "He's a liar, and boy our society is collapsing because of liars!". Urghh. They are in the comments here too, riding high white horses.
Same skill, same desire, same willingness. But the same energy is difficult to find.