Triumph of the Nerds: Part 1: Impressing Their Friends
Why the open web links it
Explores the early days of personal computing and the rise of tech entrepreneurs in the 1970s and 1980s.
Linked by 12 independent sites, 2 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including ycombinator.com, codinghorror.com, aishorty.com, betternews.co, goatmatrix.net.