History
History: past events, eras, people, and how the world came to be.
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GraphQL: The Documentary youtube.com
Documentary on the history and development of GraphQL.
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The Maddening Mess of Airport Codes youtube.com
Having multiple international and national agencies trying to reconcile history, practicality and logistics makes codes follow arcane rules.
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A History Of Bioinformatics (In The Year 2039) youtube.com
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A brief history of Bitcoin development... youtube.com
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Recreating Retro Plotter Art, by Sher Minn (Plotter People #1) youtube.com
Conference talk with lots of great computer and plotter history.
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Tech Tangents: Gold Standard Plotter - HP 7475A youtube.com
Video with some HPGL and plotter history, plus operating an HP 7475A from an IBM 5160 microcomputer.
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The Secret History of Silicon Valley youtube.com
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The Origins of Linux - Linus Torvalds youtube.com
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Timesharing: A Solution to Computer Bottlenecks youtube.com
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The Secret History Of Hacking youtube.com
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Xerox Parc - Office Alto Commercial youtube.com
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Introduction To NoSQL - Martin Fowler (54:52) youtube.com
Talk given at GOTO 2012 as a great introduction to NoSQL databases, the types of NoSQL databases, their history, pros and cons, and how and when to use them.
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Lessons from Game Design youtube.com
Will Wright (Maxis)
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Preventing the Collapse of Civilization youtube.com
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The History (and the Future) of Software youtube.com
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Migrating From Terraform To OpenTofu youtube.com
Introduction to OpenTofu history and how to migrate.
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OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (in plain English) youtube.com
Starts with an historical context on how these standards came to be, clears up the inaccuracies in the vocabulary, then details the protocols and its pitfalls to make it less intimidating.
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CGA Graphics - Not as bad as you thought! - by 8-bit Guy youtube.com
History and technical details about IBM's CGA system. Also describes 4-color RGBI and 16-color Composite modes.
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Why DOS Was (and Is) a Thing - FreeDOS youtube.com
Historical talk starting from Unix, going through CPM, DOS 1.x, DOS 2.x, DOS 3.x, DOS 4.x, DOS 6.x, Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and ending with FreeDOS.