PickVidsBest Tech company stories & documentaries Videos
The 204 Tech company stories & documentaries videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 1 introductory, 13 intermediate, 190 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include Computer History Museum, JoshuaG, Apple.
General Magic (1080p) FULL DOCUMENTARY - History, Technology, Business
A feature-length documentary on General Magic, the 1989 startup that envisioned the smartphone and handheld connected devices, featuring Tony Fadell, Andy Hertzfeld and Marc Porat.
Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (Filmed: Feb. 13, 1957)
A 1957 Walt Disney film in which he explains and demonstrates the multiplane camera, the animation tool that gave 2D films depth.
Seattle Conference on Scalability: YouTube Scalability
Cuong Do of YouTube describes how a handful of engineers scaled the site, covering hardware, software and database scalability challenges during its rapid growth.
Apple - iMac G4 "Lamp" ad (2002)
Apple's 2002 television ad for the iMac G4 "Lamp", showing the adjustable-arm design in a playful way.
Springboard: the secret history of the first real smartphone (Full Documentary)
The Verge's documentary on Handspring and its Treo, a smartphone that came a decade before the iPhone.
GOG: Preserving Gaming's Past & Future
A /noclip documentary on GOG, covering how it finds and re-releases classic games and pushes DRM-free releases.
Rockafire Explosion Documentary
A 2008 documentary by Brett Whitcomb about the Rock-afire Explosion, the animatronic band built for ShowBiz Pizza Place restaurants.
Do you know this guy? | Internet Explorer
A two-minute Microsoft ad for Internet Explorer 10 in which a karaoke-style song addresses people who hate the browser.
Jeff Bezos 1997 Interview
A 1997 interview with Jeff Bezos taped at a Special Libraries conference, where he explains why Amazon started with books and why the web made it possible.
Gabe Newell: Reflections of a Video Game Maker
Gabe Newell, founder of Valve, gives a talk at the LBJ School on productivity, economics, political institutions and the future of corporations.
The Story of RollerCoaster Tycoon | Noclip Greatest Hits
A Noclip Greatest Hits documentary on the legacy of RollerCoaster Tycoon, covering its original design, Chris Sawyer and the OpenRCT2 community that keeps it alive.
Foundry 2022 Operating System Demo
A 49-minute demo of Palantir Foundry by its chief architect.
Steve Jobs on Microsoft
A 1996 clip of Steve Jobs saying that Microsoft lacks taste and is not a creative company.
CS50 Lecture by Mark Zuckerberg - 7 December 2005
A December 2005 guest lecture by Mark Zuckerberg in Harvard's CS50, discussing Facebook's early days, its technical choices and computer science.
Micro Men - 10th Anniversary - With Chris Curry, Steve Furber and Hermann Hauser
The Centre for Computing History reunites Chris Curry, Steve Furber and Hermann Hauser to rewatch the BBC drama Micro Men on its tenth anniversary.
Steve Jobs rare footage conducting a presentation on 1980 (Insanely Great)
Rare footage of Steve Jobs giving a 22 minute presentation about Apple in 1980, donated to the Computer History Museum.
The Lost 1984 Video: young Steve Jobs introduces the Macintosh
A restored recording of Steve Jobs unveiling the original Macintosh in 1984, including the moment it is taken out of its bag and speaks.
Master Hands - Chevrolet Manufacturing (1936)
A 1936 Chevrolet promotional drama, 'Master Hands', showing car manufacturing from foundry to finished vehicle in Flint, Michigan.
Kubernetes: The Documentary [PART 1]
The official Kubernetes documentary, part 1, tells how a handful of Google engineers, inspired by Docker's success, built a container orchestrator.
GCP NEXT 2016: Day 1 Keynote (Mar 23)
The day one keynote of Google Cloud's 2016 GCP NEXT conference, with Sundar Pichai, Diane Greene, Eric Schmidt, Urs Holzle and customers.
The CED: RCA's Very Late, Very Weird Video Gamble (Pt. 1)
Technology Connections gives a deeply researched history of RCA's CED video disc system, a capacitance-based format that took over a decade to reach market.
steve jobs on why xerox failed
A short clip of Steve Jobs explaining why Xerox failed, arguing that product people lose out to sales and marketing people once a company becomes dominant.
Tengen: Atari Games vs. Nintendo
Gaming Historian recounts how Atari subsidiary Tengen challenged Nintendo's licensing rules with a lawsuit and unlicensed NES games, including the lockout chip fight.
Apple Music Event 2001-The First Ever iPod Introduction
Steve Jobs introduces the first iPod at a small Apple event in 2001.