Code Rush - Netscape Mozilla Documentary 1998 - 2000

If you liked that documentary, here's more: <a href="http://www.clickmovement.org/coderush" rel="nofollow">http://www.clickmovement.org/coderush</a><p>Comes with lots of extra footage: <a href="http://clickmovement.org/code_rush_footage_nods" rel="nofollow">http://clickmovement.org/code_rush_footage_nods</a>

Even though most of the non-tech people on camera made little sense, I thought this was a great documentary.<p>It shows how people trade health for little reward in the end. And so many people just go flying under the radar, while they are the real people behind the products we use today.<p>It's all about the entrepreneurs these days, what happened to those C++ hackers working long into the night?<p>Ah that's right, they don't look great on magazine covers.

Are there any other good documentaries about the dot-com bubble era that people here would recommend? I've only seen Startup.com:<p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256408/" rel="nofollow">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256408/</a><p>As a younger person who lives thousands of miles away from Silicon Valley, I'd love to see more video from that time. I read tons about it, but reading and seeing are different things. AS the end of Code Rush, the investment banker who talks about how in a couple years physical banks might not be around and how the GAP shouldn't be renovating its store but rather invest more money in its website said so much about the kind of mania that took place at the time. I'd love to see more.

I wish there was more documentarians around, following anyone doing something interesting. Not sure how to help make that happen, but there are so many projects that I would love to see how they were developed, even if years later.<p>For example: I'd love if documentarians followed Elon Musk around..

There's a really nicely annotated version on waxy.org<p><a href="http://waxy.org/2009/07/code_rush_in_the_creative_commons/" rel="nofollow">http://waxy.org/2009/07/code_rush_in_the_creative_commons/</a><p>if you haven't watched code rush yet, the annotations are really a fantastic addition to it and i'd suggest starting there instead.<p>edit/comment: the annotations are mostly useful, if like me, you want to rewind to some particular scene when showing part of the film to a friend. i found them pretty useful, but, ymmv :)

53:36: "This could all turn into television again. It could all be controlled by a small number of companies who control what we see and hear..."<p>Nice catch, thanks for posting this.

If you like this sort of thing, Fog Creek released their 2005 Aardvark'd documentary for free on YouTube last year: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NRL7YsXjSg" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NRL7YsXjSg</a> .. not balls off the wall exciting but an interesting look at a team of interns developing a product.

My favorite part:<p>"Not all companies succeed, some fail to embrace change. This is the way technology in the free market works. The software industries success has not been driven by government regulation but by freedom and the basic human desire to learn, to innovate, and to excel." ~Bill Gates

Direct link: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u404SLJj7ig" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u404SLJj7ig</a>

Highly recommended. Gives a "behind-the-scenes" feel. I like JWZ's comment about how he won the "startup lottery."

Is it available to download from a torrent?