Multimedia Collection
Code Rush: A Year in the Life of a Silicon Valley Supernova
VHS
60 minutes
2000
HV9696.65 .U64 N475 2000
The year is early 1998 and a small team of Netscape code writers frantically works to reconstruct the company's Internet browser. The fate of the entire company may well rest on their shoulders. Facing new competition, sales for Netscape's once world-changing browser have sunk to zero. If this gambit fails, their company, their community and their vision of the future might not survive. Welcome to the epicenter of the new American Dream. Welcome to Silicon Valley.
Code Rush takes a dramatic, inside look at living and working in Silicon Valley. The documentary follows bright and quirky Netscape Communications engineers as they pursue a revolutionary venture to save their company. Through the program's verité style, viewers see human and technological dramas unfold in the collision between science, engineering, code and commerce.
The program presents Netscape's radical effort to rewrite the rules of software development by giving away the recipe for its browser in exchange for integrating improvements created by outside unpaid software developers. Throughout the events depicted in Code Rush, Netscape competitors and stock market analysts assess how much the company may gain by giving away its browser and wonder if the effort will change the world or fall short if expectations. No matter the outcome, the final resolution will impact the world well into the next century.
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