I mentioned a bunch of popular books, not academic works. One of them had a multi-episode PBS TV show over 20 years ago! Since then, popular accounts of various famous and obscure aspects of industry history, biographies key people, etc have become even more common - I just picked some somewhat older ones.
I don't work in SV, but I like to think I work in a fairly high-skill coding environment. And I regularly have to elaborate on historical references or suggestions.
I'm at a bit of a loss at what to tell you. I feel like we have just about overwhelming evidence that the claim the computer industry is uninterested in its own history is inaccurate. Beyond the tiny smattering of it I've mentioned, that evidence pokes us in the eye every day from the front page of HN. The person who brought this up is apparently too busy to evaluate any evidence and you are telling me the good people at your office know less about computer industry history than you do - a thing that might be as true and as nondispositive about anything ranging from Pokémon to Ming Dynasty Porcelain.
