Awesome Computer History

A curated list of computer history videos, documentaries and related folklore maintained by Thomas Watson. Inspired by the awesome list thing.
Pull Requests are welcome.
Table of Contents
- Videos
- Old recordings
- Documentaries
- Reflective interviews
- Talks & Lectures
- Movies
- Commercials
- Audio
- Podcasts
- Texts
- Folklore
- Announcements and Memos
- Source Code
- Websites
- License
Videos
Old recordings
- United States Navy Training Media: Basic Mechanisms in Fire Control Computers (1953)
- Timesharing: A Solution to Computer Bottlenecks (1963)
- The Mother of All Demos (1968)
- Xerox Parc - Office Alto Commercial (1972)
- Computer Networks - ARPANET (1972) - The developers of the ARPANET talk about their new network:
- Part 1
- Part 2
- A Computer Animated Hand (1972) - One of the earliest examples of computer animation
- The Computer Literacy Project (1980-1989) - In the 1980s, the BBC explored the world of computing in The Computer Literacy Project (all episodes)
- KRON San Francisco: Primitive Internet report (1981) - KRON San Francisco news segment on how early home computer users could read their morning newspapers online
- The UNIX System: Making Computers More Productive (1982)
- The UNIX System: Making Computers Easier to Use (1982)
- The Computer Chronicles (1983-2002) - All episodes 8.6/10. A few of the notable episodes are:
- Simulator Software (1983)
- Artificial Intelligence (1985)
- The Internet (1993)
- We Are Apple (1984) - Corporate song that was used during the Macintosh rollout in January, 1984
- Thinking Allowed - Artificial Intelligence (1989) - Interview with John McCarthy, creator of Lisp and one of the founders of the discipline of artificial intelligence
- Erlang: The Movie (1990)
- Net Cafe (1996-2002) - All episodes ?/10. A few of the notable episodes are:
- Hackers (1996) - Looks at the hacker culture and their influence on the early growth of the internet
- Politics on the Web (1996) - Institute for Global Communications, Cyperpunks and Anarchists Press
- Steve Jobs: The Crazy Ones (1997) - Steve Jobs talks about The Crazy Ones marketing campaign on internal Apple meeting
Documentaries
- Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age (1984) - Documentary about a 1984 hacker conference 7.6/10
- The KGB, the Computer, and Me (1990) - With computer scientist Clifford Stoll 8.0/10
- Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires (1996) - History of the personal computer 8.5/10
- The Internet: Behind the Web (2000) - Documentary about development of internet from 1950-60's to 21st century.
- Code Rush (2000) - The story of Netscape and the birth of Mozilla 7.3/10