A curated list of computer history videos, documentaries and related folklore maintained by Thomas Watson. Inspired by the awesome list thing.
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- The Mother of All Demos (1968)
- Xerox Parc - Office Alto Commercial (1972)
- The UNIX System: Making Computers More Productive (1982)
- The UNIX System: Making Computers Easier to Use (1982)
- The Computer Chronicles (1983-2002) - All episodes. A few of the notable episodes are:
- Simulator Software (1983)
- Artificial Intelligence (1985)
- Erlang: The Movie (1990)
- The KGB, the Computer, and Me (1990) - With computer scientist Clifford Stoll 8.3/10
- Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires (1996) - History of the personal computer 8.5/10
- Code Rush (2000) - The story of Netscape and the birth of Mozilla 7.3/10
- Revolution OS (2001) - The story of GNU/linux and Open Source Movement 7.3/10
- The Secret History Of Hacking (2001) - History of early hackers 7.5/10
- BBS The Documentary (2005) - History of the Bulletin Board System 8.6/10
- Something Ventured (2011) - The history of early venture capital 7.0/10
- Silicon Valley (2013) - A PBS "American Experience" documentary about the start of Silicon Valley 8.1/10
- The Great 202 Jailbreak (2013) - David Brailsford
- UNIX Special: Profs Kernighan & Brailsford (2015) - David Brailsford interviews Brian Kernighan
- Crockford on JavaScript - Volume 1: The Early Years (2011) - Not actually about JavaScript, but about early computing history
- Bret Victor - The Future of Programming (2013..ehh 1973) - Humorous talk about the future of programming as seen from 1973
Dramatized versions of real events
- Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999) - History of Apple and Microsoft 7.3/10
- Micro Men (2009) - History of Acorn Computers and Sinclair Research 7.6/10
- Real Programmers Don't Use PASCAL (1982)
- Epigrams on Programming (1982)
- The Story of Mel (1983)
- Unix Recovery Legend (1986)
- The Jargon File (1988)
- UTF-8 history (2003)
- What would you like to see most in minix? (1991) - First public mention of what would later become Linux
- UNIX (1972) - Continuous Unix commit history from 1972 until today
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