What profession does Nerds 2.0.1 and Robert X. Cringely have in common?
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Nerds 2.0.1 Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet - a.k.a. Glory of the Geeks - is a 1998 American PBS television documentary that explores the development of the Arpanet, the Internet, and the World Wide Web in from 1969 to 1998. It was created during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. The documentary was hosted and co-written by Robert X. Cringely (Mark Stephens), and is the sequel to the 1996 documentary, "Triumph of the Nerds." It was first broadcast as "Glory of the Geeks" in three weekly episodes between September 19 and October 3, 1998 on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom, and as "Nerds 2.0.1" on consecutive days between November 25, 1998 by PBS in the United States.
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Robert X. Cringely Robert X. Cringely is the pen name of both technology journalist Mark Stephens and a string of writers for a column in "InfoWorld", the one-time weekly computer trade newspaper published by IDG.
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Robert Kelly (comedian) Robert Kelly (born October 8, 1970) is an American comedian and actor. He frequently performs at the Comedy Cellar. He often appeared on "The Opie and Anthony Show" on Sirius XM Satellite Radio, and has also appeared on "Last Call with Carson Daly", "Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn", and "Premium Blend". In 2003, he was voted the Breakthrough Performer of the Year on CringeHumor.net.
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Daniel T. Barry Daniel Thomas Barry (born December 30, 1953) is an American engineer, scientist, and a retired NASA astronaut. He was a contestant on the CBS reality television program "", as well as on "BattleBots" on ABC. He was at Singularity University from 2009–2012, where he was co-chair of the Faculty of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and the chair of the graduate summer program. He is also a co-founder of Fellow Robots, a telepresence robotics company, and the founder and president of Denbar Robotics.
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Robert M Howard Rob Howard is an American technology entrepreneur, engineer, author, and speaker. He has founded multiple companies, including Telligent and DailyStory. Howard was a founding member of Microsoft's .NET team where he contributed to the design and launch of ASP.NET.
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Richard Boly Richard Boly is a former career U.S. diplomat and former Director of the Office of eDiplomacy, an applied technology think tank for the U.S. Department of State. Previously, he was a National Security Affairs Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where he launched the Global Entrepreneurship Program.
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Brandon Hardesty Brandon Allan Hardesty (born April 13, 1987) is an American comedic performer and actor. Hardesty posts original comedy videos as well as "uncanny" recreations of scenes from movies, playing every part himself. The "Village Voice" writer Julian Dibbell has called his works "web culture at its finest."
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Andy Paley Andrew Douglas Paley (born 1952) is an American songwriter, record producer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist who was one half of the Paley Brothers, a 1970s power pop duo formed with his brother Jonathan Paley. Following their disbandment, Andy was a staff producer at Sire Records, producing albums for artists such as Brian Wilson, Jonathan Richman, NRBQ, John Wesley Harding, the Greenberry Woods, and Jerry Lee Lewis. Since then, Paley has also worked in film and television, composing scores and writing songs mostly for cartoons such as "SpongeBob SquarePants" and "Camp Lazlo".
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The Rapture of the Nerds The Rapture of the Nerds is a 2012 novel by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross. It was released on September 4, 2012 through Tor Books and as an ebook, DRM free, under the CC BY-NC-ND. The book can also be downloaded for free.
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Rich Hall Richard Travis "Rich" Hall (born 10 June 1954) is an American comedian, writer, and musician, first coming to prominence as a sketch comedian in the 1980s. He wrote and performed for a range of American networks, in series such as "Fridays", "Not Necessarily the News" (popularising the "sniglet" neologism), and "Saturday Night Live".
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Robert Armstrong (comics) Robert Armstrong (b. 1950 in Pasadena, California) is a cartoonist, illustrator, painter, and musician. He is known for his underground comix character Mickey Rat, for popularizing the term "couch potato," and for being a member of Robert Crumb's band the Cheap Suit Serenaders.
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Robert Reid (author) Robert H. "Rob" Reid (born October 2, 1966) is an American author and entrepreneur. He wrote "Architects of the Web" and is the founder of Listen.com Inc., which created the Rhapsody digital music service.
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Robert Bruce Findler Robert Bruce Findler, colloquially known as "Robby", is an American computer scientist, currently an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Northwestern University. He is also a member of the PLT group and, as such, responsible for the creation and maintenance of DrRacket. In addition to DrRacket, Findler has contributed numerous components to Racket and supervises its Web-based software library, called PLaneT. Findler is also a leading team member of the ProgramByDesign project.
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Emily Graslie Emily Graslie (born 1989) is an American science communicator and YouTube educator. She started volunteering at the Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum at the University of Montana in 2011. After appearing in a VlogBrothers video by Hank Green in 2012, she was asked to join the Nerdfighter network. She currently stars in her own educational YouTube channel called "The Brain Scoop." Graslie is now employed by the Field Museum as their first-ever Chief Curiosity Correspondent.
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Robert Krampf John Robert Krampf (born September 5, 1956 in Memphis, Tennessee), also known as "The Happy Scientist", is a science educator known for traveling the United States with his entertaining and informative science shows for the last 25 years. A lifelong fascination with science, combined with a desire to teach has led Krampf on adventures ranging from excavating dinosaur bones in Wyoming to watching whales off the coast of Mexico.
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Robert Lepper Robert Lepper (1906-1991) was an American artist and art professor at Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon University, who developed the country's first industrial design degree program. Lepper's work in industrial design, his fascination with the impact of technology on society and its potential role for artmaking formed the background for his class "Individual and Social Analysis", a two semester class focusing on community and personal memory as factors in artistic expression, which with his theoretical dialogues with his most promising students outside the classroom fostered the intellectual environment from which such diverse artists as Andy Warhol, Philip Pearlstein, Mel Bochner, and Jonathan Borofsky would later build their art practices.
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Ritch Shydner Ritchie A. "Ritch" Shydner (born December 3, 1952) is an American stand-up comedian, comic writer, and actor.
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Comedy Film Nerds Comedy Film Nerds is a weekly podcast hosted by stand-up comedians, authors, and filmmakers Chris Mancini and Graham Elwood. It is part of the All Things Comedy podcast network. The podcast is devoted to the newest movie releases, classic film, major features, independent film and all things movie-related. Each week Mancini and Elwood welcome a guest to talk anything and everything comedy film nerd related. Guests have included actor/comedian/author Kevin Pollak, SNL alum Janeane Garofalo, comedian Chris Hardwick, WTF host Marc Maron and best-selling author Stefanie Wilder-Taylor. They offer insight and stories with people in the entertainment industry.
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Bryan Brandenburg Bryan Brandenburg (born February 18, 1959 in Châteauroux, France) is an American author, technology entrepreneur and former game programmer. Brandenburg is best known as co-founder of Sculptured Software and Salt Lake Comic Con and Executive Producer at Engineering Animation, Inc.
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Nerds (candy) Nerds are an American candy sold by Nestlé. Their unusual shape and thin candy-coating is comparable to rock candy. With their anthropomorphic covers, Nerds usually contain two flavors per box, and each flavor has a separate compartment and opening. Larger packages may contain various colors—sometimes referred to as "Rainbow Nerds."
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Rob Hedden Robert Ray Hedden (born March 2, 1954) is an American writer and film director.
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Istvan Pely Istvan Pely, born in 1974, is an American game artist. His interest in video games began when his father brought home an Apple IIe; Pely enjoyed playing adventure games such as "Dragon World and Wrath of Denethenor". He got into 3D computer graphics while attending college, where he was introduced to 3D Studio R2. He developed a Mac/PC adventure game in Director called Majestic, and managed to get it published before graduating. Since then he has developed two more games independently Symbiocom and finally the science fiction game Zero Critical which was produced in 1999, but eventually deciding to focus solely on 3D art. His recent project is Movkup, an avenue for exploring fantastical mechanical/industrial design.