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History of computing Videos Recommended on Hacker News (231)

History of computing is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 231 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2007 and 2026 — 537 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Computing history: early computers, mainframes, Bletchley Park, ENIAC, Xerox PARC, Unix history, minicomputers, personal computer revolution, historical lectures and museum restorations.

History of computing Videos Recommended on Hacker News (231)

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AT&T Archives: Similiarities of Wave Behavior (Bonus Edition)

Micro Men - 720p (2009)

Light Years Ahead | The 1969 Apollo Guidance Computer

Mechanical Computer (All Parts) - Basic Mechanisms In Fire Control Computers

Project Code Rush - The Beginnings of Netscape / Mozilla Documentary

Bret Victor The Future of Programming

Alan Kay - Normal Considered Harmful

VCF East: Ken Thompson interviewed by Brian Kernighan

U.S. NAVY BASIC MECHANISMS OF FIRE CONTROL COMPUTERS MECHANICAL COMPUTER INSTRUCTIONAL FILM 27794

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

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

AT&T Archives: The UNIX Operating System

34C3 - The Ultimate Apollo Guidance Computer Talk

Alan Kay, 2015: Power of Simplicity

Unix and Google

Apollo Guidance Computer Part 1: Restoring the computer that put man on the Moon

(1/4) Intro/History: Introducing a 100-year-old mechanical computer

Secret History of Silicon Valley

How to Invent the Future I - Stanford CS183F: Startup School

James Burke Connections, Ep. 4 "Faith in Numbers"

Building The World's First Computer - Greeks, Clocks and Rockets - Antikythera Mechanism Episode 1

Eric Bier Demonstrates Cedar

How to Invent the Future II - Stanford CS183F: Startup School

Using a 1930 Teletype as a Linux Terminal

Ivan Sutherland Sketchpad Demo 1963

Mouse Cursor History (and why I made my own)

The Web That Never Was - Dylan Beattie

Admiral Grace Hopper Explains the Nanosecond

Ted Nelson demonstrates Xanadu Space

2 1 1 Jason Scott Rescuing The Prince of Persia from the sands of time

The Most Powerful Computers You've Never Heard Of

UNIX: Making Computers Easier To Use -- AT&T Archives film from 1982, Bell Laboratories

IBM Selectric Typewriter & its digital to analogue converter

MiniDisc - An Appreciation

Symbolics Lisp Machine demo Jan 2013

Avie Tevanian: CMU math whiz goes from Mach to NeXT to Apple Software Chief | Oral History Part 1