Showing some respect

My last post knocked a guy who interviewed Tim Schafer. Now even though it was bad, I do have to give the interviewer some respect as I didn’t know how influential of a person he was for the tech industry back in the day.

Stewart Cheifet, the man who conducted the interview, also did a previous show called Computer Chronicles that aired between 1981 and 2002. It was during the mid '90s when he did Net Cafe after the World Wide Web began to explode in popularity. In contrast, Computer Chronicles main focus was on the personal computer and all related hardware and software from the industry.

A few years ago, Stewart was a guest on Leo Laporte’s show Triangulation. It was fascinating to hear some of his stories, meeting with pioneers from the tech biz, and getting a bit of inside baseball on how it was like to create a television show for an industry hobbyist of it would only know about. In addition, he was the one who sent all of his shows of Computer Chronicles and Net Cafe to the Internet Archive and that’s why those copies are so good looking (as opposed to someone recording an episode from a VCR).

So in closing, Stewart Cheifet is a pretty good dude. Even though that one interview was pretty bad.

Just sayin'

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