Nerds 2.0.1

Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet - a.k.a. Glory of the Geeks - is a 1998 American PBS television documentary that explores the development of the Arpanet, the Internet, and the World Wide Web in from 1969 to 1998. It was created during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. The documentary was hosted and co-written by Robert X. Cringely (Mark Stephens), and is the sequel to the 1996 documentary, Triumph of the Nerds. It was first broadcast as Glory of the Geeks in three weekly episodes between September 19 and October 3, 1998 on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom, and as Nerds 2.0.1 on consecutive days between November 25, 1998 by PBS in the United States.

Episodes

As broadcast by Channel 4/PBS:

• Networking the Nerds (September 19, 1998/November 25, 1998)
• Serving the Suits (September 26, 1998/November 25, 1998)
• Wiring the World (October 3, 1998/November 25, 1998)

Partial cast

Funding

• Viewers Like You
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Further reading

• Schillinger, Liesel. "The Double Life of Robert X. Cringely." Wired (magazine), December 1998.
• Sisario, Ben. "SIGNOFF; For These Nerds, It's Beans to Billions." New York Times, November 22, 1998.

External links

• Nerds 2.0.1 at the Internet Movie Database
• Nerds 2.0.1 - A Brief History of the Internet - Part 1 (1998)
• Nerds 2.0.1 - A Brief History of the Internet - Part 2 (1998)
• Nerds 2.0.1 - A Brief History of the Internet - Part 3 (1998)