TV seriesLesWWW reviewChristopher Cantwell, Christopher C. Rogers, 2014
Halt and Catch Fire
Series about the rise of the computer industry in the 1980s and 1990s. It follows the evolution of PCs, the internet and tech startups in Texas, then California.
What you get out of it
Understand the history and evolution of the tech industry
Pioneers aren't the ones who win: they're the ones who ask the next question.
Why I recommend it
Ten years of computing history, from PC clones to the birth of the web, through four characters who fail at almost everything, almost every time. That is what makes the series ring true: innovation seen from the supporting cast, not the winners.
The first two seasons set things up, the last two reach the sublime. The best series ever written about tech, and almost nobody watched it when it aired. Catch up on it.
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