Triumph Of The Nerds

Watching this video was a great experience. As I was watching I learned a lot about how computers work, or how and who is behind computer in general. This video gave great insights on the birth and the evolution of computers throughout years. While the first part touches on the genesis of the computer and how it originally started while showing how it actually worked. What I found interesting here is the fact that the first personal computer was not as successful as I thought. Moreover, the fact that most people didn't originally believed in its future. Another fact that caught my attention is the number of hours and how much passion was put into it. The apple two for instance was considered a masterpiece, and how it impacted the personal computer industry was even more amazing. Through gigantic sales, and the product itself, a legend was born Apple. Setting new standards for personal computer, apple two was the leader of the revolution. Moving forward, another legend was on the making: Microsoft and Bill Gates. The wily Bill Gates was not only a great programmer, but also a great businessman. With his friends and their cunning minds they settled a deal with IBM another legend in the personal computer industry, the rest is history. After then, nothing was the same. The personal computer industry was soon filled with dozens of other companies that were doing the exact same thing as IBM computer wise, sometimes even faster. Soon enough IBM was stock up with rivals which benefited Microsoft. Probably every computers back then was running on a Microsoft system. One key moment that caught my attention is when IBM developed their OS alongside with Microsoft building their new but soon successful operating system Windows. That particular is even more important because it is the defining moment that marked up the dominance of Microsoft and windows system in the computer industry. IBM now belonged to the past and Microsoft to the future. Deep into the third part I figured that most of the innovation in the personal computer were about tweaking and editing existing system. Xerox for instance, had the idea of the PC way ahead before both Apple and Microsoft. They just didn't believe in the idea. Apple came up with the revolutionary Macintosh. The biggest issue that I came across was the fact that Macintosh wasn't taylorized for cooperation, but much for personal and simple used. Also, as mentioned the scarcity of application and the price. Even though the end was mostly about the competition between Apple and Microsoft, I believe this was a great learning experience. Using computers now days is so common that we tend to forget the effort and passion that drove the first developers and it was great way of understanding.