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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.

2 mo on HN

Self: The Movie;

Jecel Assumpção Jr
2 HN recommender · 2013–2024
2 mo on HN

Alan Kay Demos GRaIL

Vincent Gable
2 HN recommender · 2016–2025
2 mo on HN

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

Foresight Institute
2 HN recommender · 2022–2023
2 mo on HN

Here I Stand, at Age 80

TheTedNelson
2 HN recommender · 2017–2019
2 mo on HN

Susan Kare explains Macintosh UI ergonomics on the Computer Chronicles (1984)

erg0steur
2 HN recommender · 2020–2022
2 mo on HN

NeWS: A Networked and Extensible Window System, lecture by James Gosling

Computer History Museum
2 HN recommender · 2020–2024
2 mo on HN

"Eve" by Chris Granger

Strange Loop Conference
2 HN recommender · 2016–2023
2 mo on HN

Dabble DB demo

krueggen
2 HN recommender · 2014–2018
2 mo on HN

MIX08 Microsoft Office 2007: The Story of the Ribbon

zoobean
2 HN recommender · 2019–2025
2 mo on HN

Touché: Enhancing Touch Interaction on Humans, Screens, Liquids, and Everyday Objects

DisneyResearchHub
2 HN recommender · 2012–2025
2 mo on HN

Alan Kay: A powerful idea about teaching ideas

TED
2 HN recommender · 2009–2024
2 mo on HN

The Computer Chronicles - Hypercard (1987)

The Computer Chronicles
1 HN recommend · 2020–2025
2 mo on HN

Leap Technology

aamoviebb
2 HN recommender · 2014–2026
1 mo on HN

Douglas Adams - Hyperland

UJ ObscureMedia
1 HN recommend · 2016–2020
1 mo on HN

The Lost 1984 Video: young Steve Jobs introduces the Macintosh

macessentials
1 HN recommend · 2011–2021
1 mo on HN

Alternate Reality Kit by Randall Smith at Xerox PARC 1986 (VPRI-0131)

Yoshiki Ohshima (大島芳樹)
1 HN recommend · 2018–2021
1 mo on HN

Ted Nelson struggles with uncomprehending radio interviewer, 1979

TheTedNelson
1 HN recommend · 2017–2024
1 mo on HN

Ted Nelson's Eulogy for Douglas Engelbart

Computer History Museum
1 HN recommend · 2018–2025
1 mo on HN

Welcome to Project Soli

Google ATAP
1 HN recommend · 2015–2019
1 mo on HN

Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? | Ubuntu Summit 25.10

Canonical Ubuntu
3 HN recommender · 2025–2026
1 mo on HN

Steve Jobs Introduces the Macintosh

Computer History Museum
1 HN recommend · 2016–2024
1 mo on HN

Alto System Project: Larry Tesler demonstration of Gypsy

Computer History Museum
1 HN recommend · 2021–2025
1 mo on HN

Live ClojureScript Game Editor

ibdknox
1 HN recommend · 2012–2016
1 mo on HN

Apple's Future Computer: The Knowledge Navigator

Blake Patterson
1 HN recommend · 2011–2024
1 mo on HN

"Silicon Valley Story" — a Very Short Romantic Comedy by Ted Nelson

TheTedNelson
1 HN recommend · 2017–2020
1 mo on HN

Xerox Star User Interface (1982) 1 of 2

VintageCG
1 HN recommend · 2011–2024
1 mo on HN

Tablet Newspaper (1994)

Matt Novak
1 HN recommend · 2011–2012
1 mo on HN

Macworld San Francisco 2000-The Mac OS X Introduction (Pt.1)

JoshuaG
1 HN recommend · 2012–2026
1 mo on HN

Yesterday's Computer of Tomorrow: The Xerox Alto │Smalltalk-76 Demo

Computer History Museum
1 HN recommend · 2020–2025
1 mo on HN

Bill Atkinson: Polaroids showing the Evolution of the Lisa GUI

Computer History Museum
1 HN recommend · 2025–2026
1 mo on HN

MIX08 Microsoft Office 2007: The Story of the Ribbon (1 of 10)

creativecrewchannel
1 HN recommend · 2011–2020
1 mo on HN

Douglas Engelbart Interviewed by John Markoff of the New York Times

Computer History Museum
1 HN recommend · 2014–2018
1 mo on HN

The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology | Pranav Mistry

TED
1 HN recommend · 2016–2023
1 mo on HN

Longhorn concept

Arkmage2
1 HN recommend · 2009–2019
1 mo on HN

Bill Atkinson: Hypercard

TWiT Tech Podcast Network
1 HN recommend · 2022–2025
1 mo on HN

Computers for Cynics 2 - It All Went Wrong at Xerox PARC

TheTedNelson
1 HN recommend · 2014–2023