Computing History & Culture

Computing culture (other)

Computing culture (other) sits within Computing History & Culture. Treat computing as a history of people and institutions as well as machines and software. This selection contains 17 catalog videos from 17 distinct channels. The examples below offer specific entry points into the subject, with their own vocabulary and scope, rather than a prescribed sequence of lessons.

Recurring catalog topics include nostalgia, hbo, silicon valley, microsoft office, satire and 1985. These tags describe overlapping directions within the collection; an individual video may connect several of them. Recorded formats include comedy, demo, music and other. Use those differences to choose between approaches to the subject and to compare how different contributors frame related questions.

“MC Frontalot - It Is Pitch Dark”, listed under MC Frontalot, is cataloged as music. MC Frontalot's nerdcore rap about the text adventure Zork, made for Jason Scott's Get Lamp documentary and featuring a cameo by Steve Meretzky. It was filmed over an evening in a basement.

“Max Headroom 20 minutes into the future 1985”, listed under Kevin Galvayne, is cataloged as other. The 1985 Channel 4 TV film 'Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future', the origin of the computer-generated TV host Max Headroom, with a soundtrack by Midge Ure and Chris Cross.