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Awesome Computer History Awesome Build status

A curated list of computer history videos, documentaries and related folklore maintained by Thomas Watson. Inspired by the awesome list thing.

Pull Requests are welcome.

Table of Contents

Videos

Old recordings

Documentaries

Reflective interviews

Talks & Lectures

Movies

Dramatized versions of real events

Commercials

Audio

Podcasts

Texts

Folklore

Announcements and Memos

Source Code

  • Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (1969) - Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) source code for the command and lunar modules
  • C compiler (1972) - The earliest known versions of Dennis Ritchie's first C compiler (GitHub code mirror)
  • UNIX (1972) - Continuous Unix commit history from 1972 until today
  • MS-DOS (1982, 1983) - Version 1.25 and 2.0
  • Adobe Photoshop (1990) - The first version of Adobe Photoshop (written in Pascal)

Websites

  • First website ever made (1990) - CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research Organisation) website
  • The Amazing FishCam (1994) - The Fishcam was the second live camera on the web and is the oldest camera site still in existence

License

CC0

To the extent possible under law, Thomas Watson has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.