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Mark Stephens (January 28, 1953 – October 3, 2026), known by the pen name Robert X. Cringely, was an American technology journalist. He wrote an influential and often republished column in InfoWorld, the one-time weekly computer trade newspaper published by IDG. Cringely also participated in various other work, including the documentaries Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires (1996) and Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet (1998). He later published independently on his own website, I, Cringely.