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。
Colossus - The Greatest Secret in the History of Computing
Chris Shore of the Centre for Computing History explains how Colossus was built, how it worked, and how it affected the course of World War II.
Xanadu Basics 1a - VISIBLE CONNECTION
Ted Nelson explains the original Xanadu hypertext idea of visible connection, the notion that links between documents should be shown and preserved.
ARCHIVE TEAM: A Distributed Preservation of Service Attack
Jason Scott of Archive Team describes how a loose band of volunteers rushes to copy sites like Geocities, Friendster and Yahoo Video before their owners delete them.
The REAL Story On Why Space Cadet Pinball Was Removed (ft. Windows on Itanium)
NCommander investigates why Space Cadet Pinball disappeared from Windows Vista, building on Raymond Chen's explanation about 64-bit incompatibility.
Sketchpad, by Dr. Ivan Sutherland with comments by Alan Kay
Earliest known footage of Ivan Sutherland's MIT PhD work, Sketchpad, the first computer graphics system, with commentary by Alan Kay.
Ted Nelson in Herzog's "Lo and Behold"
A short excerpt from Werner Herzog's film Lo and Behold in which Ted Nelson lays out his ideas about hypertext and interconnection.
Birth of BASIC
A Dartmouth-produced documentary on how professors John Kemeny and Tom Kurtz, with a group of undergraduates, invented the BASIC language.
Halt and Catch Fire - Sales Call [ "A16" Scene ]
A scene from the TV drama Halt and Catch Fire in which Gordon Clark meets Joe MacMillan, who is posing as an IBM salesman, on a sales call.
Seymour Papert 1983
An eight-minute excerpt of a 1983 video featuring Seymour Papert, creator of Logo, on children learning programming and abstract ideas through embodied play.
A Narrative History of BSD, Dr. Kirk McKusick
Kirk McKusick gives a narrative history of BSD from its start at UC Berkeley in the late 1970s through the 1980s releases and the lawsuit that led to 4.4BSD-Lite in 1992.
Morris Chang, in conversation with Jen-Hsun Huang
A 2007 Computer History Museum conversation in which Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang interviews TSMC founder Morris Chang.
The Mind Behind Windows: Dave Cutler
Dave Plummer interviews Dave Cutler, architect of VMS and Windows NT, in a roughly three-hour conversation about his career and the history of Windows.
Erlang: The Movie (Fixed Audio)
A 12-minute film in which Erlang's creators demonstrate the language's fault tolerance and live-system features, including phoning each other to show it working.
"Uptime 15,364 days - The Computers of Voyager" by Aaron Cummings
A Strange Loop 2019 talk by Aaron Cummings on the computing systems aboard Voyager 1 and 2, which control the spacecraft and record and return data decades after launch in 1977.
Computers for Cynics 0 - The Myth of Technology
The opening episode of Ted Nelson's Computers for Cynics series, in which he casts doubt on conventional accounts of computer basics.
50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
A full-day recording of the University of Utah computer science department's 50th anniversary event with panels, keynotes and talks by alumni and pioneers.
The KGB, the Computer, and Me.
A WGBH/NOVA re-enactment of Clifford Stoll's hunt for KGB-linked hacker Markus Hess, based on his book The Cuckoo's Egg.
Edsger W. Dijkstra on Dutch TV
A 2001 VPRO Noorderlicht documentary episode, filmed in Austin in 2000, visiting Edsger Dijkstra and his views on thinking as a discipline.
Cracking Enigma in 2021 - Computerphile
Dr Mike Pound of Computerphile shows how a modern laptop can crack Enigma, using a ciphertext-only attack based on an older paper.
The Computer Chronicles - Gary Kildall Special (1995)
A 1995 episode of The Computer Chronicles devoted to Gary Kildall, creator of CP/M.
Joe Armstrong & Jeremy Ruston - Intertwingling the Tiddlywiki with Erlang | Code Mesh LDN 18
Joe Armstrong, creator of Erlang, and Jeremy Ruston, creator of TiddlyWiki, discuss hypertext, Ted Nelson's idea of intertwingled knowledge, and a way to combine TiddlyWiki with Erlang.
Birth of The Transistor: A video history of Japan's electronic industry. (Part 1)
First part of a four-part video history of Japan's electronics industry, covering the birth of the transistor and the rise of Japanese semiconductors.
Lotus Improv for NeXT 1990
A 1990 Lotus sales demo of Improv, a spreadsheet built for the NeXT computer that rethought the grid with named categories and multiple views.
Computer Science - A Guide for the Perplexed • Joe Armstrong • GOTO 2018
Joe Armstrong's GOTO 2018 talk contrasts the problems computer scientists study with the problems users have.