Computer History from the CBC
This series is an excellent documentation of the history of computers. With video clips about everything from ENIAC to the Internet, it’s interesting to see the way the computers have been viewed. It includes audio and video clips from 1957 to 1996.
I love to see how a new technology is described from the perspective of years later. Seeing this archive reminds me of how new computers are. Only as far back as 1993, emoticons were a new thing and talking to people via mailing lists was something interesting enough for the CBC to report on it. I can’t wait to see the news reports about “blogs†in ten or fifteen years. They will be even more hilarious than they are now.
Via: kottke.org