Computer History
Old recordings
16_ENTRIES- The Mother of All Demos
(1968)
- Computer Networks - ARPANET (1972) - ...
Computer Networks - ARPANET (1972) - The developers of the ARPANET talk about their new network:Part 1Part 2
- 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 Computer Chronicles
(1983-2002) - All episodes 8.6/10. A few of the notable episodes are:Simulator Software (1983)Artificial Intelligence (1985)The Internet (1993)
- 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 ?/10. A few of the notable episodes are:Hackers (1996) - Looks at the hacker culture and their influence on the early growth of the internetPolitics on the Web (1996) - Institute for Global Communications, Cyperpunks and Anarchists Press
- Steve Jobs: The Crazy Ones
(1997) - Steve Jobs talks about The Crazy Ones marketing campaign on internal Apple meeting
Documentaries
23_ENTRIES- Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age
(1984) - Documentary about a 1984 hacker conference 7.6/10
- The KGB, the Computer, and Me
(1990) - With computer scientist Clifford Stoll 8.0/10
- Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires
(1996) - History of the personal computer 8.5/10
- The Internet: Behind the Web
(2000) - Documentary about development of internet from 1950-60's to 21st century.
- Revolution OS
(2001) - The story of GNU/linux and Open Source Movement 7.3/10
- The Secret History Of Hacking
(2001) - History of early hackers 7.6/10
- BBS The Documentary
(2005) - History of the Bulletin Board System 8.5/10
- 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 6.0/10
- Download: The True Story of the Internet
(2008) - A documentary television series about Internet history 7.8/10Part 1: Browser Wars β The rise and fall of Netscape and its battle against MicrosoftPart 2: Search β The rise of Google and YahooPart 3: Bubble β The dot-com crash of 2000 and the mainstays of the Internet: Amazon.com and Ebay[Part 4: People Poweβ¦
- Something Ventured
(2011) - The history of early venture capital 7.0/10
- We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists
(2012) - A documentary on the workings and beliefs of the self-described "hacktivist" collective, Anonymous 7.3/10
- Silicon Valley
(2013) - A PBS "American Experience" documentary about the start of Silicon Valley 7.9/10
- DEFCON: The Documentary
(2013) - Documentary about DEFCON, the biggest hacker conference 5.8/10
- Downloaded
(2013) - The Napster Revolution, a documentary that explores the downloading revolution 6.9/10
- 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 8.1/10
- Rise of the Hackers
(2014) - Harnessing cryptography to stay a step ahead of cybercriminals 7.5/10
- 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. 6.8/10
Reflective interviews
3_ENTRIES- Steve Jobs - The Lost Interview
(2012) - A conversation with Steve Jobs as he was running NeXT, the company he had founded after leaving Apple 8.1/10
- The Great 202 Jailbreak
(2013) - David Brailsford
- UNIX Special: Profs Kernighan & Brailsford
(2015) - David Brailsford interviews Brian Kernighan
Talks & Lectures
5_ENTRIES- 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
Movies
5_ENTRIESDramatized versions of real events
- Pirates of Silicon Valley
(1999) - History of Apple and Microsoft 7.3/10
- The Social Network
(2010) - The history of the birth of Facebook 7.7/10
- Halt and Catch Fire
) (2014-2017) - Set in the 1980s, this series dramatizes the personal computing boom 8.4/10
- Steve Jobs
(2015) - The story shows Steve Jobs behind the scenes of Apple's iconic product launches. 7.2/10
Commercials
1_ENTRIES- Apple 1984 Super Bowl Commercial
(1984) - Apple 1984 Super Bowl Commercial Introducing Macintosh Computer 7.8/10
Podcasts
1_ENTRIESFolklore
16_ENTRIES- The Humble Programmer
(1972) - Dijkstra's overview of the programming universe as he saw it in 1972
- 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)
- A Cypherpunk's Manifesto
(1993)
- UTF-8 history
(2003)
- The Story of the PING Program
(undated)
Announcements and Memos
3_ENTRIES- 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
Source Code
5_ENTRIES- Apollo 11 Guidance Computer
(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 (GitHub code mirror)
- UNIX
(1972) - Continuous Unix commit history from 1972 until today
- MS-DOS
(1982, 1983) - Version 1.25 and 2.0
- Adobe Photoshop
(1990) - The first version of Adobe Photoshop (written in Pascal)
Websites
2_ENTRIES- 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