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May 11, 2024 · PBS Online is proud to present the companion Web site for the PBS television special "Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires." On television and the Internet, you can learn in vivid detail how youthful amateurs, hippies and self-proclaimed "nerds" accidentally changed the world.
1 day ago · Summary. Themistocles proves himself a great leader in 300: Rise of an Empire, drawing inspiration from historical events like the Battle of Salamis. Despite being evenly matched, Themistocles ultimately gains the upper hand in his final battle against Artemisia, killing her in self-defense. With Queen Gorgo's help, Themistocles leads the Greek ...
May 23, 2024 · After twenty years, I re-watched the documentary series “Triumph of the Nerds“ and I must admit that it was nice to go back to that era. I myself was a participant of the computer movement that happened in the eighties of the last century, and even though I lived in a closed country (Yugoslavia), there were always ways to get hold of new technological devices that appeared in the West or ...
May 13, 2024 · [Robert X. Cringely] Accidental Empires - How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle ...[Robert X. Cringely] Accidental Empires - How the Boys of ...PBS Online is proud to present the companion Web site for the PBS television special "Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires." On television and the Internet, you can ...
May 19, 2024 · The term ‘Nerd’, originally coined as a slur for overly intellectual, socially awkward individuals, is now worn as a badge of honor, but why? You might think that the present-day nerds are somewhat evolved from their former counterparts, but you’d be wrong. The essence of being a nerd is still the same, what has changed is our perception of them. What’s changed now, is that we can see ...
3 days ago · It is with all this baggage I encountered Jean d’Ormesson’s 1971 novel T he Glory of the Empire, originally published by Éditions Gallimard, with its English translation released in 2016 and published by the New York Review of Books. Earlier than most, d’Ormesson invents textbook-style alternate history (a subgenre with pre-d’Ormesson ...
3 days ago · Over the middle half of the nineteenth century, a set of practices to aid political prisoners and exiles in Russia had emerged from an unlikely cross-fertilization of traditions and tendencies: officially sanctioned philanthropies to improve conditions for prisoners; longstanding mutual aid efforts among Polish exiles and the Decembrists; and a developing powerful imaginary of exile, and ...
