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Where to watch "Triumph of the Nerds"
3. Great Artists Steal
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Xerox PARC-a user-friendly technology-was adapted by Steve Jobs for the Macintosh. Then Jobs is fired by the man he hired. Then Windows 95 brought the Graphical UserInterface to make pc's friendlier and in the process made Bill Gates the richest man in the world.
2. Riding the Bear
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The IBM PC hit the business world and then the suits meet the nerds. The IBM PC clones invaded the market. A tiny software company called Microsoft tried to cooperate with IBM and then, decided to compete with them.
1. Impressing Their Friends
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They did it because they were geniuses; they did it because they were addicted to the mental challenge. But mostly they just invented personal computing to impress their friends.