If they couldn't go through, they would go around. It was an inspiring surge of can-do ingenuity. A lot of money is being made, and few people really know what is going on. Well, if your description of Hollywood is 'a business where they throw huge amounts of money at projects that are over-budget, late, and likely to bust,' then yes, Silicon Valley is the new Hollywood. But engineers are becoming something of celebs in the late '90s.
Music goes for the gut, engineering for the noggin.
I don't get a tear in my eye when I load up Netscape, and I don't get up and dance when I connect to America Online. We'll never be hearing about Andreeson tearing up hotel rooms, or about how Larry Ellison has got some love child. Those guys have got too much work to do to get in trouble and entertain us. Back to writing for Wired for a year. I'm very, very late on some articles.