Born in mid 90s, majoring CSE in college, I have no idea when my professors start talking about 20 years old PC industry history stuffs during their lectures. Now as I watched this, I can at least follow their nostalgic old-days stories while resting my brain, not being confused by confronting generation gap.

By the way, this show is quite entertaining as a documentary.

This documentary is pretty dated, having been released in 1996 when Windows 95 was the hot new thing and the internet was still a novelty for most people. Things have changed a lot, especially society's perceptions of nerds. There are a lot of references (especially in the first episode) to how nerds are better at dealing with computers than people with their complex emotions. There are jabs at nerds staying up late hours drinking soda and eating junk food while "hacking code".

Beyond that, there are a lot of fascinating clips from old commercials, interviews with founders and inventors, and some candid moments where people like Ballmer, Gates, Jobs, and Wozniak lay out their concerns, fears, and hopes. This doc is truly a window into the past, and worth checking out if you're interested in the people and history who laid the foundations of today's tech industry.

This documentary is cheesy, even for something from the 90's, but it's one of the few out there that goes into any kind of detail about the early days of personal computing. It's worth playing on a second screen at least.

I was an Apple dealer before they even had a floppy disk drive for their Apple ][. By 1984 and the Apple II Forever Convention in San Francisco, Steve Jobs was pretty much despised by his employees. The Woz, on the other hand, was revered. Steve was basically a d*ck. Barely made it through episode 1.