Triumph of the Nerds: "Middle class white kids from good suburban homes"

What caught my attention right from the begining is when the narrator states the the only girl at the electronic shop looks board, and that this is a boys thing. I thought that was a very interesting statement.  Form then what was interesting to me was the hours that these people work. It seems that sleep is something that isn't even a thought. They also don't punch any sort of normal time clock, or have any sort of normal habits such as social life, hygiene, and nutrition. These things seem to all get in the way of making major developments in the coding world. 

I could not imagine how nervous young Paul and Bill would have been the first time bringing software out to a company without any guarantee that it was going to run. Luckily for them it did. The next incredible thing is how quickly Apple grew and how young the people working and owning the company were. These young people were so lucky to have this be their hobby, something they love that was creating such an incredible income. What is shocking to me next is a IBM song book…really ? I think that takes how they have been talking about nerds to a next level. The way they portray the company is like a fraternity for men once they leave collage. This is just a fraternity that is making some of the most advanced technology of its day.  The next incredible thing mentioned is how Microsoft bought the ground breaking product that they needed from a little computer company for only $50,000. I bet that today, whoever at that small computer company that made that deal, is really kicking themselves for not asking for more. Another aspect that was interesting was when it was mentioned that the computers were hard to use and not so much for the every day person, because the people creating them enjoyed things that were challenging to them, they were not looking at it from the view point of the average person with little to no programing skills. The amount of work that had to go into simple tasks on the personal computer, made it much to difficult and unappealing to the average person. 

When they bring Steve Jobs into the film, it is incredible how instantly obvious it is that Jobs was so much more charismatic than Bill Gates. Bill Gates stands in front of a crowd looking like your typical computer geek, Steve Jobs presents himself in a self confident manner that attracts people to him and his company. Then came on of the most famous advertisements to ever go on air, why 1984 wont be like 1984, although this did not change much for the company at the time, this commercial is still looked at in the advertising world as one of the most iconic commercials. Windows 3 user-friendly new design put Mac on the bottom shelf. The future of the computer and these computer geeks can't be predicted, but as the technology grows there is nothing but big things in the future.