Internet Boom and Bust of the 90s Explored in NatGeo’s ‘Valley of the Boom’
Hit the reset button, if you will, and go back to the Silicon Valley of the mid-1990s. It was the dawn of the internet age as we know it today and more than a decade before Apple’s iPhone revolutionized cellular communications. Those who remember the days now billed as the dot-com 1.0 era will fondly recall Netscape, one of the first companies to harness the potential of the World Wide Web with its then-revolutionary web browser. The...
HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’ Satirically Nails the Gold Rush Geekdom of High Tech
Here’s the definition of a geek entourage, straight from the mouth of one of the characters on Mike Judge’s new HBO comedy, “Silicon Valley:” “It’s weird. They always travel in groups of five, these programmers. There’s always a tall skinny white guy, short skinny Asian guy, fat guy with the ponytail, some guy with crazy facial hair and then an east Indian guy. It’s like they trade guys until they all have the right group.” Many will...
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