PickVidsBest GUI, HCI & interface history Videos
The 110 GUI, HCI & interface history videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 3 introductory, 22 intermediate, 84 for a general viewer, and 1 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a demo. What they share is that you see the result first and only then decide whether to follow the detail. Channels you will keep seeing include Computer History Museum, TheTedNelson, Colin McDonnell.
Canon Cat
A short Italian-language clip about the Canon Cat, a text-oriented personal computer from Canon designed by Jef Raskin, who started the Macintosh project.
VCF East: Xerox Star vs. Apple Lisa
Jason Perkins's talk at Vintage Computer Festival East 2020 compares the user interface of the Xerox Star with that of the Apple Lisa.
NeXTSTEP Release 3: A Demonstration with Steve Jobs
A 35-minute demonstration of NeXTSTEP Release 3 by Steve Jobs.
Inventing the Computer Mouse | Douglas Engelbart | Talks at Google
A Talks at Google visit by Douglas Engelbart, inventor of the mouse.
Live Debugging in Smalltalk
A brief demo of the Smalltalk debugger, including defining a method that doesn't exist yet while the program is stopped mid-crash.
Apple 1984 Super Bowl Commercial Introducing Macintosh Computer (HD)
The famous 1984 Apple Macintosh Super Bowl commercial, directed by Ridley Scott and based on Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Clippy
A one-minute clip of Microsoft's Clippy, the Office assistant character, in action.
ubuntu 3D Desktop (Cube) (KDE & Compiz Fusion & CairoDock) fullHD 1080p
A short screen recording of an Ubuntu Karmic Koala desktop running KDE4 with Compiz Fusion 3D cube effects and CairoDock.
Low-Cost Multi-touch Whiteboard using the Wiimote
Johnny Chung Lee shows how infrared light pens and a Wii Remote can make a very low-cost multi-point interactive whiteboard or tablet display.
Upgrading From Windows 1.0 to Windows 8 On Actual Hardware
A 74-minute video of upgrading Windows 1.0 through every release up to Windows 8 on a real netbook rather than in a virtual machine.
TEENS REACT TO WINDOWS 95
A REACT episode where teenagers try Windows 95 for the first time and react to the retro interface and technology.
1968 “Mother of All Demos” by SRI’s Doug Engelbart and Team
Highlights from Doug Engelbart's December 1968 demonstration at SRI, the first public showing of the mouse, hypertext, windows, real-time collaborative editing and shared-screen teleconferencing.
Bill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991)
A short clip of Bill Gates demonstrating Visual Basic in 1991, showing drag-and-drop building of a Windows GUI.
New Technology: Haptic Feedback for Touchscreens
GameSpot meets the VP of Senseg, a company adding electrostatic touch feedback to tablets and touch surfaces, and demonstrates the technology.
Apple's 1987 Knowledge Navigator Video
Apple's 1987 Knowledge Navigator concept video imagines a conversational voice assistant, multi-touch tablet and video calling used by a professor.
How Steve Jobs got the ideas of GUI from XEROX
A short video telling how Xerox PARC invented the graphical user interface and how Steve Jobs's 1979 visit influenced Apple's Lisa.
Looking Glass
A short demo of Sun Microsystems' Looking Glass, a 3D desktop GUI concept for a future operating system.
Inspiring a future Clojure editor with forgotten Lisp UX - Shaun Lebron
Shaun Lebron surveys 50 years of Lisp editing history and forgotten innovations in structural editing.
interactive ui in minority report
A short compilation of the gesture and multitouch interface scenes from the film Minority Report.
Xerox Star User Interface (1982) 2 of 2
Second half of a demonstration of the 1982 Xerox Star user interface.
Origins of the Apple Human Interface
A 1997 Computer History Museum lecture in which Larry Tesler and Chris Espinosa recount how the Apple human interface was born, from the Lisa through the Macintosh.
Microsoft Surface multimedia coffee table
A short video of a Microsoft Surface multimedia coffee table, with a pointer to making a homemade multi-touch screen.
Neonode N1m review
A 2007 video review of the Neonode N1m phone, which uses touch gestures including a swipe to unlock.
The Virtual Reality device from Disclosure
A scene from the film Disclosure showing its virtual reality interface, including a 3D file system visualizer.