awesome-computer-history

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(1972) - One of the earliest examples of computer animation

(1980-1989) - In the 1980s, the BBC explored the world of computing in The Computer Literacy Project (all episodes)

(1981) - KRON San Francisco news segment on how early home computer users could read their morning newspapers online

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(1983-2002) - All episodes . A few of the notable episodes are:

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(1984) - Corporate song that was used during the Macintosh rollout in January, 1984

(1989) - Interview with John McCarthy, creator of Lisp and one of the founders of the discipline of artificial intelligence

(1990)

(1996-2002) - All episodes . A few of the notable episodes are:

(1996) - Looks at the hacker culture and their influence on the early growth of the internet

(1996) - Institute for Global Communications, Cyperpunks and Anarchists Press

(1997) - Steve Jobs talks about The Crazy Ones marketing campaign on internal Apple meeting

(1984) - Documentary about a 1984 hacker conference

(1990) - With computer scientist Clifford Stoll

(1996) - History of the personal computer

(2000) - Documentary about development of internet from 1950-60's to 21st century

(2000) - The story of Netscape and the birth of Mozilla

(2001) - The Histroy of Linux & FOSS

(2001) - The story of GNU/linux and Open Source Movement

(2001) - History of early hackers

(2005) - History of the Bulletin Board System

(2006) - Documentary about how poor countries are using free and open source software (FOSS) for development purposes

(2008) - Documentary about what hackers are

(2008) - A documentary television series about Internet history

– The rise and fall of Netscape and its battle against Microsoft

– The rise of Google and Yahoo

– The dot-com crash of 2000 and the mainstays of the Internet: Amazon.com and Ebay

– Peer to peer technology, web 2.0, and social networking

(2011) - The history of early venture capital

(2011) - Documents the Info-Tech Age, told by the events and people who helped build and manipulate it

(2012) - A documentary on the workings and beliefs of the self-described "hacktivist" collective, Anonymous

(2013) - A PBS "American Experience" documentary about the start of Silicon Valley

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(2013) - Documentary about DEFCON, the biggest hacker conference

(2013) - The Napster Revolution, a documentary that explores the downloading revolution

(2014) - Invention of the Basic computer language

(2014) - The story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz

(2014) - Harnessing cryptography to stay a step ahead of cybercriminals

(2016) - Documentary detailing the story of Compaq, its three founders and how it took on IBM at the height of its PC dominance

(2012) - A conversation with Steve Jobs as he was running NeXT, the company he had founded after leaving Apple

(2013) - David Brailsford

(2015) - David Brailsford interviews Brian Kernighan

(1985) - Richard Feynman Computer Heuristics Lecture. Not about computer history per se, but about how computers work

(2001) - Linus Torvalds tells the story of how he went from writing code as a graduate student to become an icon for open source software

(2008) - Talk by Steve Blank at the Computer History Museum

(2011) - Not actually about JavaScript, but about early computing history

(2013..ehh 1973) - Humorous talk about the future of programming as seen from 1973

(1999) - History of Apple and Microsoft

(2009) - History of Acorn Computers and Sinclair Research

(2010) - The history of the birth of Facebook

(2014-2017) - Set in the 1980s, this series dramatizes the personal computing boom

(2015) - The story shows Steve Jobs behind the scenes of Apple's iconic product launches

(1984) - Apple 1984 Super Bowl Commercial Introducing Macintosh Computer

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(1972) - Dijkstra's overview of the programming universe as he saw it in 1972

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(1986) - The Hacker Manifesto

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(1991) - First public mention of what would later become Linux

(1995) - Bill Gates' memo to all executive staff within Microsoft on assigning the Internet the highest level of importance

(1999) - Poul-Henning Kamp coining the term bikeshedding

Apollo 11 Guidance Computer

(1969) - Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) source code for the command and lunar modules

(1972) - The earliest known versions of Dennis Ritchie's first C compiler ( )

UNIX

(1972) - Continuous Unix commit history from 1972 until today

MS-DOS

(1982, 1983) - Version 1.25 and 2.0

(1990) - The first version of Adobe Photoshop (written in Pascal)

(1990) - CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research Organisation) website

(1994) - The Fishcam was the second live camera on the web and is the oldest camera site still in existence