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Valley of the Boom
2019 · TV series · documentary · 43 min episodes · 1 season
Created by Matthew Carnahan
An adrenaline-fueled ride through the culture of speculation, innovation and disruption during Silicon Valley’s unprecedented tech boom and subsequent bust in the 1990s. This mostly scripted series weaves in select documentary elements that help tell the true inside story of the internet’s formative years.
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Startup.com was great. I've also heard good things about Valley of the Boom. And, while not exactly a dot com movie, Pirates of Silicon Valley is a classic about the Jobs vs Gates rivalry.
I started with the Internet in the late 90s, so you could say I've been here most of the way, and I am still always fascinated by the stories and movies about the early days.
Not only does it stir up the memories of the craziness, but it reminds me that most of the things we do today are not that ground-breaking. The young generation of engineers is just relearning the lessons we did - with faster CPUs and bigger screens.
P.S.: I could not stop watching Valley of the Boom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_of_the_Boom
I haven’t read it, but heard good things about “The Soul of a New Machine” about Data Generals efforts create a new 32-bit superminicomputer.
https://www.tracykidder.com/the-soul-of-a-new-machine.html
Another comment mentioned “Pirates of Silicon Valley” as a good dramatization of MS/Apple and there’s also the miniseries “Valley of the Boom” about the rise and fall of Netscape and “Halt and Catch Fire” which is a fictional and thematic view of 80s/90s computer history.
Also Valley of the Boom [0] by National Geographic focusing on Netscape, Pixelon, and a couple others.
And General Magic [1] - a documentary about the startup General Magic with interviews with early employees who went on to Apple, Google, etc
And Silicon Cowboys [2] - documentary about Compaq in the early days, pretty much the real story version of Season 1
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_of_the_Boom
[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6849786/
[2] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4938484/
Oh do tell!?
Actually I found this on Wikipedia:
The history of the company has been used as an academic case study in the study of corporate governance and ethics[14] and also as the subject in 2019 National Geographic's docudrama miniseries Valley of the Boom.
The Nudist On The Late Shift is a great one.
The Nat Geo TV series "Valley Of The Boom" was on earlier this year, that was entertaining.