Triumph of the Nerds Part II
The second part of the documentary “Triumph of the Nerds” focuses on the differences between what were the old companies, mainly IBM or Big Blue as they called it, to new companies like Microsoft or Apple. Mainly the way Big Blue is a lot more strict, has a lot of customs and rules, compared to Microsoft or Apple which were companies whose leaders didn’t have a strict dress code or strict written in stone working hours. We also see how computers were still not ready to be the wonder machines they are today, Big Blue saw them as unnecessary machines. Once Big Blue started creating personal computers, they needed someone to create for them, they had the hardware, but without the software, it was useless. And that is where Bill Gates comes in, creating the operating system for the IBM computers. What Big Blue did not predict, was that that young boy they hired to make their operating system, would be one of the most influential people in our current era, or how him and another called ...