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GUI, HCI & interface history Videos Recommended on Hacker News (110)

GUI, HCI & interface history is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 110 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2007 and 2026 — 217 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Interface history and human-computer interaction: Lisa, Macintosh, Engelbart mother of all demos, Smalltalk, Windows UI, Ribbon, Bret Victor, direct manipulation, future of interfaces.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle: “My mind was blown when I saw this video 2 years ago” — an HN commenter, 2014.

GUI, HCI & interface history Videos Recommended on Hacker News (110)

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Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle

Bret Victor The Future of Programming

A Tour of the Acme Editor

Alan Kay's tribute to Ted Nelson at "Intertwingled" Festival

The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)

Alan Kay: Doing with Images Makes Symbols (Full Version)

Bret Victor - The Humane Representation of Thought

Eric Bier Demonstrates Cedar

Ivan Sutherland Sketchpad Demo 1963

Mouse Cursor History (and why I made my own)

Alan Kay at OOPSLA 1997 - The computer revolution hasnt happened yet

Steve Jobs, "Computers are like a bicycle for our minds." - Michael Lawrence Films

Ted Nelson demonstrates Xanadu Space

Symbolics Lisp Machine demo Jan 2013

Bret Victor - Seeing Spaces

Alto System Project: Dan Ingalls demonstrates Smalltalk

Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote

Xanadu Basics 1a - VISIBLE CONNECTION

Bret Victor - Media for Thinking the Unthinkable

Sketchpad, by Dr. Ivan Sutherland with comments by Alan Kay

The GUI should be better. A lot better.

Ted Nelson in Herzog's "Lo and Behold"

Bret Victor - Drawing Dynamic Visualizations

Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle

Computers for Cynics 0 - The Myth of Technology

Code Bubbles: Rethinking the User Interface Paradigm of Integrated Development Environments

Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls Jr.: The Live Web. Drag 'n drop in the cloud

Joe Armstrong & Jeremy Ruston - Intertwingling the Tiddlywiki with Erlang | Code Mesh LDN 18

NeXTSTEP Release 3 Demo

Lotus Improv for NeXT 1990

Applied Sciences Group: High Performance Touch

Bret Victor Inventing on Principle

Self: The Movie;

Alan Kay Demos GRaIL

Shawn Douglas - Nanoscale Instruments for Visualizing Small Proteins & Bret Victor - Dynamicland

Here I Stand, at Age 80