| Title |
Description |
Length |
| The Information
Machine |
A short animated film produced by designers
Charles and Ray Eames for IBM's pavilion at Expo '58. |
9:39
Min. |
| Univac
commercial |
An ad for Univac shown during the game show
What's My Line? |
2:58
Min. |
| Sputnik
Newsreel |
Sputnik's launch made news all over the world,
including this 1957 newsreel. |
0:45
Min. |
| Highlights from Sputnik
documentary |
Documentary filmmaker David Hoffman gives his
perspective on the events surrounding Sputnik's launch. |
3:47
Min. |
| Computer Networks: The
Heralds of Resource Sharing |
This excerpt from a 1972 film features interviews
with J.C.R. Licklider, Fernando Corbato, and Lawrence
Roberts. |
2:04
Min. |
| Commercial: Sharp calculators |
Featuring the Sharp LC-8 calculator, the world's
first battery operated portable calculator. |
1:00
Min. |
| The Computer Chronicles: Mainframes to Minis to
Micros |
A bit of computing history and
prehistory. |
6:11
Min. |
| The Computer Chronicles: Unix |
This 1985 episode speculated whether Unix would
become the next MS-DOS. |
3:32
Min. |
| Opinion: No home Unix |
Paul Schindler, Editor for Information Week, explains
why Unix is not suitable for microcomputers. |
1:06
Min. |
| Introduction of the Macintosh |
Steve Jobs unveils of the
Macintosh. |
2:47
Min. |
| Quantum Link |
Steve Case talks in 1987 about Quantum Link, the
forerunner to America Online, which at that time ran only on the Commodore
64. |
2:55
Min. |
| Windows 95 rollout |
Bill Gates and Jay Leno present the new version of the
Windows operation system. |
1:32
Min. |
| History of the Internet |
Filmmaker Melih Bilgil presents the evolution of the
Internet using symbols. |
7:50
Min. |
| The Browser Wars and Portals |
Would Netscape or Internet Explorer emerge as the top
browser? And would portals be the future of the
Internet? |
8:55
Min. |
| Emoticon poem |
Poet Rives presents a few lines with emoticon
accompaniment. |
3:17
Min. |
| BumpTop |
Anand Agarawala demonstrates a computer desktop that
lets you throw, pile, and crumple your files. |
4:39
Min. |
| The AlloSphere |
Joann Kuchera-Morin demonstrates the Allosphere, a
research facility with a 3D immersive theater that maps complex data in
time and space. |
6:27
Min. |
| Self-aware robots |
Cornell Professor Hod Lipson demonstrates gives a
glimpse into how robots behave and evolve. |
6:17
Min. |
| A computer that works like a
brain |
Kwabena Boahan talks about trying to mimic the
brain's supercomputing powers in silicon. |
16:21 Min. |
| Classic arcade games |
A few moments
from classic arcade games |
0:16
Min. |
