Computing History & Culture
GUI, HCI & interface history
GUI, HCI & interface history sits within Computing History & Culture. Treat computing as a history of people and institutions as well as machines and software. This selection contains 110 catalog videos from 85 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 hypertext, computer history, bret victor, ted nelson, xerox parc and apple. These tags describe overlapping directions within the collection; an individual video may connect several of them. Recorded formats include comedy, commentary, demo, documentary, explainer, interview, lecture, other, talk and tutorial. Use those differences to choose between approaches to the subject and to compare how different contributors frame related questions.
“Alan Kay's tribute to Ted Nelson at "Intertwingled" Festival”, listed under TheTedNelson, is cataloged as demo. Alan Kay's tribute to Ted Nelson at the Intertwingled festival, presented using a revived Smalltalk-78 system running on emulated 1970s Xerox PARC hardware. It shows live, user-programmable software from that era.
“The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)”, listed under Marcel, is cataloged as demo. The full recording of Douglas Engelbart's 1968 demonstration, which introduced the mouse, hypertext, video conferencing, word processing, and real-time collaborative editing. It runs about 100 minutes.
110 videos
Interview
Steve Jobs, "Computers are like a bicycle for our minds." - Michael Lawrence FilmsMichael Lawrence
Lecture
NeWS: A Networked and Extensible Window System, lecture by James GoslingComputer History Museum
