Ask HN: What are some of the historic CS videos that you have come across?

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I have been wondering if there are any historic events in CS that is captured. Please share those that you came across here.

Doug Engelbart's 1968 mother of all demos http://www.dougengelbart.org/firsts/dougs-1968-demo.html Remember that most programmers were using punched cards into the mid 1970's; Doug's work was impossible magic.

History of Computing class at San Jose State University had a speaker series, Fall 2011, with an excellent list of speakers (except my talk). http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/~mak/SpeakerSeries/index.html

The Computer History Museum has videos of their lectures, starting in 1998. http://www.computerhistory.org/events/past/ These are also in CHM's Youtube channel, plus other historic videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerHistory CHM also has an oral history project with multi hour interviews: http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/oralhistories/