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The film was broadcast as part of the Monday night "Fox-o-Rama" promotion. [1] As a promotional gimmick, Fox telecast the film in 3-D and "aroma-vision", the latter of which utilized a series of scratch and sniff cards sold at 7-Eleven outlets, each to be used at certain points during the movie. [1]
The title Triumph of the Nerds is a play on the title of the 1984 comedy Revenge of the Nerds. [2] Cringely followed the series with Nerds 2.0.1 (titled Glory of the Geeks in the UK), a history of the Internet to 1998. In 2012, Cringely released the full interview that Steve Jobs gave in 1995 for Triumph of the Nerds as Steve Jobs: The Lost ...
The last segment, Wiring the World, is about the history of the World Wide Web. [2] Apple Inc. founder Steve Jobs is among those featured in the documentary. [3] The documentary aired in 1998 on PBS and Channel 4. [1] [2] It aired on the Australian television channel Ovation in 2002. [4]
N.E.R.D.S. is a children's pentalogy written by Michael Buckley and illustrated by Ethen Beavers.The series tells the story of a fictional spy agency and its agents—children who have their "nerdy" characteristics upgraded into a tool that they can use to fight crime.
A stock character is a dramatic or literary character representing a generic type in a conventional, simplified manner and recurring in many fictional works. [1] The following list labels some of these stereotypes and provides examples.
Children's literature offers a generally positive portrayal of librarians as knowledgeable, helpful, amazing, and friendly, becoming more positive over the course of the 20th century. Adult literature, however, portrays the profession more negatively. Between these, portrayals of librarians in young adult fiction are neutral to negative.
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