Triumph of the Nerds [three of three] 1/6

[three of three] 1/6
This film chronicles the rise of the personal computer/home computer beginning in the 1970s with the Altair 8800, Apple II and VisiCalc. It continues through the IBM PC and Apple Macintosh revolution through the 1980s and the mid 1990s at the beginning of the Dot-com boom. It includes interviews with Apple Computer's Steve Jobs and Microsoft's Bill Gates.

This three-part film first premiered on PBS in June 1996.

PS!
Here's a playlist for the whole thing:
http://tinyurl.com/37xnc2
Takes you from A to Z of the film with ease.

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[Solyahoff]

To be fair, GUI and mouse creation have nothing to do with Xerox PARC; it was invented before at ARC in Stanford University

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[sancombru]

And the whole 3D look given to ALL the objects (the overall "Look"). True, Apple DID rip-off the gui from Xerox, I don't dispute that. What I'm saying is that Microsoft didn't spend any resource on any actual innovations, they just copied the look & feel of other interfaces when these became popular (namely Apple and NeXT and now Apple again) and tried to take all the credit just to sell more while others had teams of engineers, graphics designers and psicologists actually creating things.

[vorjay]

@LegoLoverFilms Grasping.

[LegoLoverFilms]

@vorjay What I mean is, he says Apple copied Xerox PARC. They did copy PARC, but in return PARC got 100,00 AAPL (Apple's stock exchange name) shares.

[vorjay]

@LegoLoverFilms what exactly does that mean. My stealing is better than your stealing?

[LegoLoverFilms]

@sancombru Apple did copy Xerox PARC, but Apple's design was different from Xerox PARC's, while Microsoft nearly exactly copied Apple. Plus PARC got 100,000 AAPL shares.

[KingDT2007]

you know Microsoft sucks because they had Leno as there spokesperson

[aditya1783]

Triumph of the nerds (three of three) 3/6 is missing. Can someone please upload it?

[GeekBoy03]

Windows 95 sure did look a lot like OS/2

[ChocosoftPC]

2:17 that's my favorite part!

[SuperKittyPancake]

Very big Halo approach in the beginning.