PickVidsBest History of computing Videos
「History of computing」下面有231部被不同的人、在不同月份推荐过的视频。挑的时候先看对象：入门6部，适合还没学过的人；进阶50部，适合已经懂术语的人；普通向173部，按兴趣就能看；更硬的2部，留给想看推导或细节的人。这一类数量最多的是演示，所以它们的共同点是先看到做成了什么，再决定要不要追细节。常出现的频道包括Computer History Museum、TheTedNelson、CuriousMarc。目录给这个主题划的范围是：Computing history: early computers, mainframes, Bletchley Park, ENIAC, Xerox PARC, Unix history, minicomputers, personal computer revolution, historical lectures and museum restorations.如果只看三部，就从《AT&T Archives: Similiarities of Wave Behavior (Bonus Edition)》开始，它负责把问题讲出画面；然后看《Micro Men - 720p (2009)》，换一种讲法或例子；最后看《Light Years Ahead | The 1969 Apollo Guidance Computer》，留给已经有基础的人。页面按每页24部切开，顺序看的是被推荐跨越了多少个月，不是播放量。每条标题下面那一句是这部片子自己的内容说明，用来区分它在讲定义、过程、演示还是观点。点进去能看到推荐原话、原文链接和适合谁看。看的时候把强烈推荐当成有人明确叫你去看，把引用当成只是拿来举例，把批评留下来对照，不要把每条评论都当成同一力度。
AT&T Archives: Similiarities of Wave Behavior (Bonus Edition)
A Bell Labs film in which Dr.
Micro Men - 720p (2009)
Micro Men is a 2009 BBC comic drama about the early 1980s British home computer boom.
Light Years Ahead | The 1969 Apollo Guidance Computer
Robert Wills of TNMoC explains the Apollo Guidance Computer hardware and software, then walks through the Apollo 11 landing procedure step by step, including the 1202 alarms.
Mechanical Computer (All Parts) - Basic Mechanisms In Fire Control Computers
A 1953 US Navy training film explaining the basic mechanisms in mechanical fire control computers aboard ships.
Project Code Rush - The Beginnings of Netscape / Mozilla Documentary
Code Rush is a one-hour documentary following Netscape engineers in Silicon Valley through the company's last year as an independent firm.
Bret Victor The Future of Programming
Bret Victor's DBX 2013 talk, delivered in the guise of a 1973 IBM engineer with an overhead projector.
Alan Kay - Normal Considered Harmful
Alan Kay's 2009 UIUC talk arguing that computing is more a pop culture than a science and that ignoring history and fundamentals leads to inferior solutions.
VCF East: Ken Thompson interviewed by Brian Kernighan
Brian Kernighan interviews Unix co-creator Ken Thompson at VCF East 2019.
U.S. NAVY BASIC MECHANISMS OF FIRE CONTROL COMPUTERS MECHANICAL COMPUTER INSTRUCTIONAL FILM 27794
A 1953 US Navy training film on the basic mechanisms in fire control computers: shafts, gears, cams and differentials.
Alan Kay's tribute to Ted Nelson at "Intertwingled" Festival
Alan Kay's tribute to Ted Nelson at the Intertwingled festival, presented using a revived Smalltalk-78 system running on emulated 1970s Xerox PARC hardware.
The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)
The full recording of Douglas Engelbart's 1968 demonstration, which introduced the mouse, hypertext, video conferencing, word processing, and real-time collaborative editing.
AT&T Archives: The UNIX Operating System
A 1982 Bell Labs film hosted by Victor Vyssotsky on the origins and design philosophy of the UNIX operating system, with appearances by Kernighan, Thompson and Ritchie.
34C3 - The Ultimate Apollo Guidance Computer Talk
Michael Steil and Christian Hessmann's 34C3 talk explaining the Apollo Guidance Computer end to end: hardware design, operating system, and mission software.
Alan Kay, 2015: Power of Simplicity
Alan Kay's 2015 talk on the power of simplicity, arguing that systems become simpler by building on more sophisticated fundamental building blocks and that big research horizons drove invention at Xerox PARC.
Unix and Google
A short animated simulation comparing how Multics and Unix were developed, showing why Unix's small composable programs and pipes gave it a efficiency advantage.
Apollo Guidance Computer Part 1: Restoring the computer that put man on the Moon
The first episode of CuriousMarc's series restoring a real Apollo Guidance Computer, led by AGC expert Mike Stewart.
(1/4) Intro/History: Introducing a 100-year-old mechanical computer
The first of four short videos from Bill Hammack (engineerguy) introducing and giving the history of a 100-year-old mechanical computer, Michelson's harmonic analyzer.
Secret History of Silicon Valley
Steve Blank's Computer History Museum lecture argues that Silicon Valley's roots lie in WWII radar and electronic warfare work, Stanford's Fred Terman and Cold War military funding rather than the semiconductor alone.
How to Invent the Future I - Stanford CS183F: Startup School
Alan Kay's Stanford Startup School lecture covers his career at Xerox PARC and how to think about inventing the future.
James Burke Connections, Ep. 4 "Faith in Numbers"
Episode 4 of James Burke's Connections series, tracing how commercialism, climate change and the Black Death shaped the move to the Renaissance.
Building The World's First Computer - Greeks, Clocks and Rockets - Antikythera Mechanism Episode 1
The first episode of Clickspring's series on reproducing the Antikythera Mechanism by hand, laying out the plan and the history.
Eric Bier Demonstrates Cedar
Eric Bier, a PARC research scientist, demonstrates the Cedar integrated programming environment and language, an evolution of Mesa from Xerox PARC.
How to Invent the Future II - Stanford CS183F: Startup School
Part two of Alan Kay's Stanford Startup School lecture on inventing the future.
Using a 1930 Teletype as a Linux Terminal
CuriousMarc connects a restored 1930 Model 15 Teletype to a Linux machine and uses it as a terminal, after commenters requested it.