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A curated list of computer history videos, documentaries and related folklore maintained by Thomas Watson (https://twitter.com/wa7son). Inspired by the awesome list thing
(https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome).
 
Pull Requests (https://github.com/watson/awesome-computer-history/edit/master/README.md) are welcome.
 
Table of Contents
 
- Videos (#videos)
- Old recordings (#old-recordings)
- Documentaries (#documentaries)
- Reflective interviews (#reflective-interviews)
- Talks & Lectures (#talks--lectures)
- Movies (#movies)
- Commercials (#commercials)
- Audio (#audio)
- Podcasts (#podcasts)
- Texts (#texts)
- Folklore (#folklore)
- Announcements and Memos (#announcements-and-memos)
- Source Code (#source-code)
- Websites (#websites)
- License (#license)
 
Videos
 
Old recordings
 
- United States Navy Training Media: Basic Mechanisms in Fire Control Computers (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkPOzHopOIo7ii8LTjgwBT_XMTR7q54KX) (1953)
- Timesharing: A Solution to Computer Bottlenecks (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q07PhW5sCEk) (1963)
- The Mother of All Demos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY) (1968)
- Xerox Parc - Office Alto Commercial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0zgj2p7Ww4) (1972)
- Computer Networks - ARPANET (1972) - The developers of the ARPANET talk about their new network:
- Part 1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVhwOaCwkb0)
- Part 2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmO4TxDCMjI)
- A Computer Animated Hand (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjbax5HYHLQ) (1972) - One of the earliest examples of computer animation
- The Computer Literacy Project (https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk/) (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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WCTn4FljUQ) (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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc4ROCJYbm0) (1982)
- The UNIX System: Making Computers Easier to Use (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvDZLjaCJuw) (1982)
- The Computer Chronicles (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkJ6eQKpHZgsZBla4JgKj3A) (1983-2002) - All episodes . A few of the notable episodes are:
- Simulator Software (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVZiureyV-s) (1983)
- Artificial Intelligence (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Uz3HYfCIGc) (1985)
- The Internet (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_o8gerare0) (1993)
- We Are Apple (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbJy0O4UFSM) (1984) - Corporate song that was used during the Macintosh rollout in January, 1984
- Thinking Allowed - Artificial Intelligence (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozipf13jRr4) (1989) - Interview with John McCarthy, creator of Lisp and one of the founders of the discipline of
artificial intelligence
- Erlang: The Movie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrIjfIjssLE) (1990)
- Net Cafe (https://archive.org/details/netcafe) (1996-2002) - All episodes . A few of the notable episodes are:
- Hackers (https://archive.org/details/nc101_hackers) (1996) - Looks at the hacker culture and their influence on the early growth of the internet
- Politics on the Web (https://archive.org/details/nc103_cyberpolitics) (1996) - Institute for Global Communications, Cyperpunks and Anarchists Press
- Steve Jobs: The Crazy Ones (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCz_SiPD_X0) (1997) - Steve Jobs talks about The Crazy Ones marketing campaign on internal Apple meeting
 
Documentaries
 
- Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVCLowi4v7w) (1984) - Documentary about a 1984 hacker conference
- The KGB, the Computer, and Me (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcKxaq1FTac) (1990) - With computer scientist Clifford Stoll
- Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_of_the_Nerds) (1996) - History of the personal computer
- The Internet: Behind the Web (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9ebkjWU6Z4) (2000) - Documentary about development of internet from 1950-60's to 21st century.
- Code Rush (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q7FTjhvZ7Y) (2000) - The story of Netscape and the birth of Mozilla
- The Code (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMm0HsmOTFI) (2001) - The Histroy of Linux & FOSS
- Revolution OS (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw8K460vx1c) (2001) - The story of GNU/linux and Open Source Movement
- The Secret History Of Hacking (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUf1d-GuK0Q) (2001) - History of early hackers
- BBS The Documentary (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgE-9Sxs2IBVgJkY-1ZMj0tIFxsJ-vOkv) (2005) - History of the Bulletin Board System
- The Codebreakers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc-hlV2xbSg) (2006) - Documentary about how poor countries are using free and open source software (FOSS) for development purposes.
- Hackers Are People Too (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jciIsuEZWM) (2008) - Documentary about what hackers are
- Download: The True Story of the Internet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Download_The_True_Story_of_the_Internet) (2008) - A documentary television series about Internet history
- Part 1: Browser Wars (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VANORrzKX50) – The rise and fall of Netscape and its battle against Microsoft
- Part 2: Search (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjbh9FFW6VE) – The rise of Google and Yahoo
- Part 3: Bubble (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQjnkyoNIfg) – The dot-com crash of 2000 and the mainstays of the Internet: Amazon.com and Ebay
- Part 4: People Power (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f42J_reRO0Q) – Peer to peer technology, web 2.0, and social networking
- Something Ventured (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1737747/) (2011) - The history of early venture capital
- Code 2600 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAfUjqIbfXo) (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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHl0WI32XkY) (2012) - A documentary on the workings and beliefs of the self-described "hacktivist" collective,
Anonymous
- Silicon Valley (https://www.pbs.org/video/american-experience-silicon-valley/) (2013) - A PBS "American Experience" documentary about the start of Silicon Valley
- TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTOKXCEwo_8) (2013)
- DEFCON: The Documentary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ctQOmjQyYg) (2013) - Documentary about DEFCON, the biggest hacker conference
- Downloaded (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSZqkn9hT5w) (2013) - The Napster Revolution, a documentary that explores the downloading revolution
- Birth of BASIC (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYPNjSoDrqw) (2014) - Invention of the Basic computer language.
- The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXr-2hwTk58) (2014) - The story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz
- Rise of the Hackers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQnAEiGx1-4) (2014) - Harnessing cryptography to stay a step ahead of cybercriminals
- Silicon Cowboys (https://www.netflix.com/title/80104318) (2016) - Documentary detailing the story of Compaq, its three founders and how it took on IBM at the height of its PC dominance.
 
Reflective interviews
 
- Steve Jobs - The Lost Interview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRZAJY23xio) (2012) - A conversation with Steve Jobs as he was running NeXT, the company he had founded after leaving Apple
- The Great 202 Jailbreak (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVxeuwlvf8w) (2013) - David Brailsford
- UNIX Special: Profs Kernighan & Brailsford (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT_J6xc-Az0) (2015) - David Brailsford interviews Brian Kernighan
 
Talks & Lectures
 
- Computers From The Inside Out (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKWGGDXe5MA) (1985) - Richard Feynman Computer Heuristics Lecture. Not about computer history per se, but about how computers
work
- The Origins of Linux - Linus Torvalds (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVTWCPoUt8w) (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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo) (2008) - Talk by Steve Blank at the Computer History Museum
- Crockford on JavaScript - Volume 1: The Early Years (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxAXlJEmNMg) (2011) - Not actually about JavaScript, but about early computing history
- Bret Victor - The Future of Programming (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4) (2013..ehh 1973) - Humorous talk about the future of programming as seen from 1973
 
Movies
 
_Dramatized versions of real events_
 
- Pirates of Silicon Valley (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168122/) (1999) - History of Apple and Microsoft
- Micro Men (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXBxV6-zamM) (2009) - History of Acorn Computers and Sinclair Research
- The Social Network (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Network) (2010) - The history of the birth of Facebook
- Halt and Catch Fire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(TV_series)) (2014-2017) - Set in the 1980s, this series dramatizes the personal computing boom
- Steve Jobs (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2080374/) (2015) - The story shows Steve Jobs behind the scenes of Apple's iconic product launches.
 
Commercials
 
- Apple 1984 Super Bowl Commercial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zfqw8nhUwA) (1984) - Apple 1984 Super Bowl Commercial Introducing Macintosh Computer
 
Audio
 
Podcasts
 
- Internet History Podcast (http://www.internethistorypodcast.com/) (subscribe (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/internet-history-podcast/id829119009))
 
Texts
 
Folklore
 
- The Humble Programmer (https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd03xx/EWD340.PDF) (1972) - Dijkstra's overview of the programming universe as he saw it in 1972
- Real Programmers Don't Use PASCAL (https://web.mit.edu/humor/Computers/real.programmers) (1982)
- Epigrams on Programming (http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html) (1982)
- The Story of Mel (http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html) (1983)
- Unix Recovery Legend (https://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/recovery.html) (1986)
- The Conscience of a Hacker (http://phrack.org/issues/7/3.html) (1986) - The Hacker Manifesto
- The Jargon File (https://www.dourish.com/goodies/jargon.html) (1988)
- The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto (https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/crypto-anarchy.html) (1992)
- A Cypherpunk's Manifesto (https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html) (1993)
- The Story of Getting SSH Port 22 (https://www.ssh.com/ssh/port) (1995)
- In the Beginning…Was the Command Line (http://cristal.inria.fr/~weis/info/commandline.html) (1999)
- The case of the 500-mile email (https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html) (2002)
- UTF-8 history (https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt) (2003)
- 20 Years — One Standard: The Story of TCP/IP (http://www.cbi.umn.edu/iterations/spira.html) (2003)
- How Steve Wozniak Wrote BASIC for the Original Apple From Scratch (https://gizmodo.com/how-steve-wozniak-wrote-basic-for-the-original-apple-fr-1570573636) (2014)
- The Story of the PING Program (http://ftp.arl.army.mil/~mike/ping.html) (undated)
 
Announcements and Memos
 
- What would you like to see most in minix? (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.minix/dlNtH7RRrGA%5B1-25%5D) (1991) - First public mention of what would later become Linux
- The Internet Tidal Wave (http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/07/internet-tidal-wave.html) (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... (http://phk.freebsd.dk/sagas/bikeshed.html) (1999) - Poul-Henning Kamp coining the term bikeshedding
 
Source Code
 
- Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11) (1969) - Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) source code for the command and lunar modules
- C compiler (https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/primevalC.html) (1972) - The earliest known versions of Dennis Ritchie's first C compiler (GitHub code mirror
(https://github.com/mortdeus/legacy-cc))
- UNIX (https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/tree/Research-Release) (1972) - Continuous Unix commit history from 1972 until today
- MS-DOS (https://github.com/Microsoft/MS-DOS) (1982, 1983) - Version 1.25 and 2.0
- Adobe Photoshop (http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/adobe-photoshop-source-code/) (1990) - The first version of Adobe Photoshop (written in Pascal)
 
Websites
 
- First website ever made (http://info.cern.ch/) (1990) - CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research Organisation) website
- The Amazing FishCam (http://fishcam.com/) (1994) - The Fishcam was the second live camera on the web and is the oldest camera site still in existence
 
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