As The Nerds Turn by Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen, the browser inventor turned VC, just posted one of his tweet fire, something like a staccato blog updates. He is calling it “As The Nerds Turn.” Let’s take it from the top:
1/1950’s + 1960’s + 1970’s + 1980’s + early 1990’s view of computer technology = “Nerds!”
— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) June 24, 2014
2/Late 1990’s view of computer technology = “Everyone will get rich!”
— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) June 24, 2014
3/2001’s view of computer technology = “The nerds screwed us!”
— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) June 24, 2014
4/2003’s view of computer technology = “We knew those nerds were wrong all along!”
— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) June 24, 2014
5/2009’s view of computer technology = “Those nerds are completely out of ideas!”
— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) June 24, 2014
6/2013’s view of computer technology = “Those nerds and all their crazy ideas are going to destroy all the jobs!”
— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) June 24, 2014
7/And now = “Those nerds are completely out of ideas again, and now they’re having sex too!” http://t.co/Du7pMU6seU http://t.co/GF5L2qXwj3
— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) June 24, 2014
8/Stay tuned for more updates from our favorite show, “As The Nerds Turn” :-).
— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) June 24, 2014
You can sat what you want about Andreessen’s style — he’s a rallying defender of the nerds of the world. And that goes a long way in San Francisco, the Silicon Valley and almost anywhere in the world where you find developers who communicate with code but are rarely understood.
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