PickVidsBest GUI, HCI & interface history Videos
The 110 GUI, HCI & interface history videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 3 introductory, 22 intermediate, 84 for a general viewer, and 1 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a demo. What they share is that you see the result first and only then decide whether to follow the detail. Channels you will keep seeing include Computer History Museum, TheTedNelson, Colin McDonnell.
Microsoft Surface Demo @ CES 2008
A 2008 CES demo of the original Microsoft Surface, a smart table with multi-touch interaction.
The Final Demonstration of the Xerox 'Star' computer
A Computer History Museum recording of the final demonstration of the Xerox Star, the early graphical user interface workstation.
It's a Unix system
A clip from Jurassic Park in which Lex says, "It's a Unix system, I know this," while navigating a 3D file system view.
It's a unix system
A one-minute clip of the Jurassic Park scene where a girl navigates the FSN 3D file manager on an SGI system and declares it a Unix system.
Star Trek - Hello Computer
A short clip from Star Trek IV in which Scotty tries to talk to a 20th-century computer, picks up the mouse and says 'Hello, computer'.
Steve Jobs talks about what he saw and he missed at Xerox PARC
A one-minute clip from the 1995 Steve Jobs interview in which he describes what he saw at Xerox PARC and what he missed.
LilithComdexDemo
A silent demo of the ETH Lilith Modula-2 workstation running its Comdex demo program, captured from the Emulith emulator.
[HD] Children of Men - Ark of the Arts - "I just don't think about it"
A scene from Children of Men in which Theo visits Nigel in the Ark of the Arts to get transit papers.
Microsoft Windows 1.0 with Steve Ballmer (1986)
A one-minute 1986 promo of Microsoft Windows 1.0 presented by Steve Ballmer, with a hyperbolic price pitch ending in the tag line about Nebraska.
Apple Knowledge Navigator Video (1987)
Apple's 1987 Knowledge Navigator concept video, made for John Sculley's EDUCOM keynote, showing a professor conversing with a tablet-based AI assistant.
How Real People Will Use Windows 8
Chris Pirillo has his father try Windows 8 for the first time to see how ordinary users cope with the new interface.
WINDOWS VISTA AERO VS LINUX UBUNTU BERYL
A 2007 side-by-side demo comparing Windows Vista's Aero interface with Ubuntu running Beryl/Compiz, showing effects such as the desktop cube and burning windows.
Xerox Star User Interface: An overview
A 1982 Xerox PARC film, presented at CHI '90, in which Star designers David Canfield Smith and Charles Irby give an overview of the Xerox Star interface.
SGI Fusion - FSN 3d File System Navigator
A short screen capture of SGI's File System Navigator (FSN, also called Fusion) running on IRIX 6.5 on an Octane.