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Computer History Archive
A curated collection of computer history resources
An Awesome List of computer history videos, documentaries and related folklore
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Awesome Computer History / Videos / Old recordings | |||
| United States Navy Training Media: Basic Mechanisms in Fire Control Computers | (1953) | ||
| Timesharing: A Solution to Computer Bottlenecks | (1963) | ||
| The Mother of All Demos | (1968) | ||
| Xerox Parc - Office Alto Commercial | (1972) | ||
Awesome Computer History / Videos / Old recordings / Computer Networks | |||
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Awesome Computer History / Videos / Old recordings | |||
| A Computer Animated Hand | (1972) - One of the earliest examples of computer animation | ||
| The Computer Literacy Project | (1980-1989) - In the 1980s, the BBC explored the world of computing in The Computer Literacy Project (all episodes) | ||
| KRON San Francisco: Primitive Internet report | (1981) - KRON San Francisco news segment on how early home computer users could read their morning newspapers online | ||
| The UNIX System: Making Computers More Productive | (1982) | ||
| The UNIX System: Making Computers Easier to Use | (1982) | ||
| The Computer Chronicles | (1983-2002) - All episodes . A few of the notable episodes are: | ||
Awesome Computer History / Videos / Old recordings / The Computer Chronicles | |||
| Simulator Software | (1983) | ||
| Artificial Intelligence | (1985) | ||
| The Internet | (1993) | ||
Awesome Computer History / Videos / Old recordings | |||
| We Are Apple | (1984) - Corporate song that was used during the Macintosh rollout in January, 1984 | ||
| Thinking Allowed - Artificial Intelligence | (1989) - Interview with John McCarthy, creator of Lisp and one of the founders of the discipline of artificial intelligence | ||
| Erlang: The Movie | (1990) | ||
| Net Cafe | (1996-2002) - All episodes . A few of the notable episodes are: | ||
Awesome Computer History / Videos / Old recordings / Net Cafe | |||
| Hackers | (1996) - Looks at the hacker culture and their influence on the early growth of the internet | ||
| Politics on the Web | (1996) - Institute for Global Communications, Cyperpunks and Anarchists Press | ||
Awesome Computer History / Videos / Old recordings | |||
| Steve Jobs: The Crazy Ones | (1997) - Steve Jobs talks about The Crazy Ones marketing campaign on internal Apple meeting | ||
Awesome Computer History / Videos / Documentaries | |||
| Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age | (1984) - Documentary about a 1984 hacker conference | ||
| The KGB, the Computer, and Me | (1990) - With computer scientist Clifford Stoll | ||
| Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires | (1996) - History of the personal computer | ||
| The Internet: Behind the Web | (2000) - Documentary about development of internet from 1950-60's to 21st century | ||
| Code Rush | (2000) - The story of Netscape and the birth of Mozilla | ||
| The Code | (2001) - The Histroy of Linux & FOSS | ||
| Revolution OS | (2001) - The story of GNU/linux and Open Source Movement | ||
| The Secret History Of Hacking | (2001) - History of early hackers | ||
| BBS The Documentary | (2005) - History of the Bulletin Board System | ||
| The Codebreakers | (2006) - Documentary about how poor countries are using free and open source software (FOSS) for development purposes | ||
| Hackers Are People Too | (2008) - Documentary about what hackers are | ||
| Download: The True Story of the Internet | (2008) - A documentary television series about Internet history | ||
Awesome Computer History / Videos / Documentaries / Download: The True Story of the Internet | |||
| Part 1: Browser Wars | – The rise and fall of Netscape and its battle against Microsoft | ||
| Part 2: Search | – The rise of Google and Yahoo | ||
| Part 3: Bubble | – The dot-com crash of 2000 and the mainstays of the Internet: Amazon.com and Ebay | ||
| Part 4: People Power | – Peer to peer technology, web 2.0, and social networking | ||
Awesome Computer History / Videos / Documentaries | |||
| Something Ventured | (2011) - The history of early venture capital | ||
| Code 2600 | (2011) - Documents the Info-Tech Age, told by the events and people who helped build and manipulate it | ||
| We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists | (2012) - A documentary on the workings and beliefs of the self-described "hacktivist" collective, Anonymous | ||
| Silicon Valley | (2013) - A PBS "American Experience" documentary about the start of Silicon Valley | ||
| TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard | (2013) | ||
| DEFCON: The Documentary | (2013) - Documentary about DEFCON, the biggest hacker conference | ||
| Downloaded | (2013) - The Napster Revolution, a documentary that explores the downloading revolution | ||
| Birth of BASIC | (2014) - Invention of the Basic computer language | ||
| The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz | (2014) - The story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz | ||
| Rise of the Hackers | (2014) - Harnessing cryptography to stay a step ahead of cybercriminals | ||
| Silicon Cowboys | (2016) - Documentary detailing the story of Compaq, its three founders and how it took on IBM at the height of its PC dominance | ||
Awesome Computer History / Videos / Reflective interviews | |||
| Steve Jobs - The Lost Interview | (2012) - A conversation with Steve Jobs as he was running NeXT, the company he had founded after leaving Apple | ||
| The Great 202 Jailbreak | (2013) - David Brailsford | ||
| UNIX Special: Profs Kernighan & Brailsford | (2015) - David Brailsford interviews Brian Kernighan | ||
Awesome Computer History / Videos / Talks & Lectures | |||
| Computers From The Inside Out | (1985) - Richard Feynman Computer Heuristics Lecture. Not about computer history per se, but about how computers work | ||
| The Origins of Linux - Linus Torvalds | (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 | ||
| The Secret History of Silicon Valley | (2008) - Talk by Steve Blank at the Computer History Museum | ||
| Crockford on JavaScript - Volume 1: The Early Years | (2011) - Not actually about JavaScript, but about early computing history | ||
| Bret Victor - The Future of Programming | (2013..ehh 1973) - Humorous talk about the future of programming as seen from 1973 | ||
Awesome Computer History / Videos / Movies | |||
| Pirates of Silicon Valley | (1999) - History of Apple and Microsoft | ||
| Micro Men | (2009) - History of Acorn Computers and Sinclair Research | ||
| The Social Network | (2010) - The history of the birth of Facebook | ||
| Halt and Catch Fire | (2014-2017) - Set in the 1980s, this series dramatizes the personal computing boom | ||
| Steve Jobs | (2015) - The story shows Steve Jobs behind the scenes of Apple's iconic product launches | ||
Awesome Computer History / Videos / Commercials | |||
| Apple 1984 Super Bowl Commercial | (1984) - Apple 1984 Super Bowl Commercial Introducing Macintosh Computer | ||
Awesome Computer History / Audio / Podcasts | |||
| Internet History Podcast | ( ) | ||
Awesome Computer History / Texts / Folklore | |||
| The Humble Programmer | (1972) - Dijkstra's overview of the programming universe as he saw it in 1972 | ||
| Real Programmers Don't Use PASCAL | (1982) | ||
| Epigrams on Programming | (1982) | ||
| The Story of Mel | (1983) | ||
| Unix Recovery Legend | (1986) | ||
| The Conscience of a Hacker | (1986) - The Hacker Manifesto | ||
| The Jargon File | (1988) | ||
| The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto | (1992) | ||
| A Cypherpunk's Manifesto | (1993) | ||
| The Story of Getting SSH Port 22 | (1995) | ||
| In the Beginning…Was the Command Line | (1999) | ||
| The case of the 500-mile email | (2002) | ||
| UTF-8 history | (2003) | ||
| 20 Years — One Standard: The Story of TCP/IP | (2003) | ||
| How Steve Wozniak Wrote BASIC for the Original Apple From Scratch | (2014) | ||
| The Story of the PING Program | (undated) | ||
Awesome Computer History / Texts / Announcements and Memos | |||
| What would you like to see most in minix? | (1991) - First public mention of what would later become Linux | ||
| The Internet Tidal Wave | (1995) - Bill Gates' memo to all executive staff within Microsoft on assigning the Internet the highest level of importance | ||
| A bike shed (any colour will do) on greener grass... | (1999) - Poul-Henning Kamp coining the term bikeshedding | ||
Awesome Computer History / Source Code | |||
| Apollo 11 Guidance Computer | 59,686 | 5 months ago | (1969) - Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) source code for the command and lunar modules |
| C compiler | (1972) - The earliest known versions of Dennis Ritchie's first C compiler ( ) | ||
| UNIX | 6,603 | over 2 years ago | (1972) - Continuous Unix commit history from 1972 until today |
| MS-DOS | 30,806 | 7 months ago | (1982, 1983) - Version 1.25 and 2.0 |
| Adobe Photoshop | (1990) - The first version of Adobe Photoshop (written in Pascal) | ||
Awesome Computer History / Websites | |||
| First website ever made | (1990) - CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research Organisation) website | ||
| The Amazing FishCam | (1994) - The Fishcam was the second live camera on the web and is the oldest camera site still in existence | ||
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