awesome-computer-history
github.com/watson/awesome-computer-history ↗An Awesome List of computer history videos, documentaries and related folklore
Use this list with your AI agent
Add the Context Awesome MCP server to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client, then ask:
"Show me folklore resources from awesome-computer-history"
Installation instructions →What's inside
Texts
- 20 Years — One Standard: The Story of TCP/IPFolklore
- A bike shed (any colour will do) on greener grass...Announcements and Memos
Poul-Henning Kamp coining the term bikeshedding
- A Cypherpunk's ManifestoFolklore
- Epigrams on ProgrammingFolklore
- How Steve Wozniak Wrote BASIC for the Original Apple From ScratchFolklore
- In the Beginning…Was the Command LineFolklore
Videos
- A Computer Animated HandOld recordings
One of the earliest examples of computer animation
- Apple 1984 Super Bowl CommercialCommercials
Apple 1984 Super Bowl Commercial Introducing Macintosh Computer
- Artificial IntelligenceOld recordings
- BBS The DocumentaryDocumentaries
History of the Bulletin Board System
- Birth of BASICDocumentaries
Invention of the Basic computer language.
- Bret Victor - The Future of ProgrammingTalks & Lectures
Humorous talk about the future of programming as seen from 1973
Source Code
- Adobe Photoshop
The first version of Adobe Photoshop (written in Pascal)
- Apollo 11 Guidance Computer
Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) source code for the command and lunar modules
- C compiler
The earliest known versions of Dennis Ritchie's first C compiler (
- MS-DOS
Version 1.25 and 2.0
- UNIX
Continuous Unix commit history from 1972 until today
Websites
- First website ever made
CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research Organisation) website
- The Amazing FishCam
The Fishcam was the second live camera on the web and is the oldest camera site still in existence
Audio
- Internet History PodcastPodcasts
Showing a sample of 90 resources. View the full list on GitHub →