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A comment on Ask HN: What are some (good) hacker movies?.

Re:Ask HN: What are some (good) hacker movies? by mixmax on Monday January 26, 2009 @01:20PM (#450772)
I liked "a beauiful mind" about John Nash and game theory.

And "The Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires" is a must-see about how Microsoft, Apple, et al. started out.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some (good) hacker movies? by mschwar99 on Monday January 26, 2009 @01:25PM (#450775)
Triumph of the Nerds is great. Hopefully Cringley will make a version for this decade about Web empires.
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Re:Ask HN: What are some (good) hacker movies? by rogercosseboom on Monday January 26, 2009 @01:40PM (#450790)
He did make "Nerds 2.0" about the first web boom. Sadly, this has never been released on vhs/dvd.
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Re:Ask HN: What are some (good) hacker movies? by mixmax on Monday January 26, 2009 @02:35PM (#450874)
It has been released on the Intertubes apparently: http://www.torrentbox.com/torrent_details?id=29078&filel...
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Re:Ask HN: What are some (good) hacker movies? by rogercosseboom on Monday January 26, 2009 @02:39PM (#450879)
Sadly I tried to download this a while ago and it turned out to be fake... its another (not-so-interesting) documentary on the internet.
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Re:Ask HN: What are some (good) hacker movies? by mixmax on Monday January 26, 2009 @04:36PM (#451084)
This one seems to be the real deal, I'm downloading it now, and I saw Robert X. Cringely in the preview.
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Re:Ask HN: What are some (good) hacker movies? by mschwar99 on Monday January 26, 2009 @04:17PM (#451043)
Evidently there is VHS / DVD out there. Didn't find anything streaming, but didn't look too hard. Mr Cringley was nice enough to point us in the right direction:

http://www.pbs.org/opb/nerds2.0.1/

http://www.amazon.com/Nerds-2-0-1-Brief-History-Internet/dp/...

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Re:Ask HN: What are some (good) hacker movies? by wenbert on Monday January 26, 2009 @09:58PM (#451531)
I second "A Beautiful Mind" - one of my favorite movies...
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Re:Ask HN: What are some (good) hacker movies? by jd on Monday January 26, 2009 @10:32PM (#451576)
"Pirates of Silicon Valley" is -much- better than Triumph. Both are must-sees.
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