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.