Remembering Robert X. Cringely
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oh crap. i hadn’t heard that bob cringely had morted a few weeks ago.
back when i was a greasy grad student, i had access to a research lab full of digitizing equipment, meant for handling interview tapes. this was back in the day when digitizing analog video wasn’t cheap to do.
i found out that my university library had a decade-old copy of Nerds 2.0.1 - a cringely documentary that had disappeared entirely after it had aired in the late 90s. there were no digital copies online.
so naturally, i checked out the library vhs copy and spent a weekend in the research lab making a pirated copy. i uploaded it TPB and a private tracker, and it eventually ended up on youtube.
for about 20 years this was the only version of Nerds 2.0.1 on the internet. i assume someone else has digitized it from better tapes by now.
RIP Cringely.
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🚨🚨 Breaking pseudo-news: Paul Tyma recalls the legendary call with Bob Cringely, who apparently read 7 Java books before they existed. 🤔🙄 Who knew time travel was a prerequisite for Ph.D. students at Syracuse University? 📚🌀
https://tyma.com/my-cringe-story/ #BreakingNews #TimeTravel #TechLegends #JavaBooks #PhDHumor #HackerNews #ngated