HCI & Interface History
165 videos · GUI history · HCI pioneers & visionary demos · HCI research
1:04:33Alan Kay at OOPSLA 1997 - The computer revolution hasnt happened yet
5:46Apple Knowledge Navigator Video (1987)
2:08:02Alto System Project: Dan Ingalls demonstrates Smalltalk
1:40:53The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)
17:33Alan Kay's tribute to Ted Nelson at "Intertwingled" Festival
51:07Alan Kay, 2015: Power of Simplicity
25:48Ted Nelson struggles with uncomprehending radio interviewer, 1979
58:02How to Invent the Future I - Stanford CS183F: Startup School
15:09Mouse Cursor History (and why I made my own)
1:07:26Alan Kay - Normal Considered Harmful
56:39Alan Kay - Programming and Scaling
5:11The Lost 1984 Video: young Steve Jobs introduces the Macintosh
35:09NeXTSTEP Release 3 Demo
53:46Dasher: information-efficient text entry
1:37:45Alan Kay: Doing with Images Makes Symbols (Full Version)
19:20Ivan Sutherland Sketchpad Demo 1963
7:26Ted Nelson's Eulogy for Douglas Engelbart
1:56:07Eric Bier Demonstrates Cedar
40:12Immediate-Mode Graphical User Interfaces - 2005
29:16SYMBOLICS S-PACKAGES 3D GRAPHICS AND ANIMATION DEMO
14:46Computers for Cynics 0 - The Myth of Technology
8:42Xerox Star User Interface (1982) 1 of 2
![Mark DiMarco: User Interface Algorithms [JSConf2014]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/90NsjKvz9Ns/hq2.jpg)
27:42Mark DiMarco: User Interface Algorithms [JSConf2014]
2:52Macintosh 1984 Promotional Video - with Bill Gates!
13:43Symbolics Lisp Machine demo Jan 2013
43:50Founder School Session: The Future Doesn't Have to Be Incremental
7:32Ted Nelson demonstrates Xanadu Space
49:22Douglas Adams - Hyperland
17:34Leap Technology
12:23Xanadu Basics 1a - VISIBLE CONNECTION
1:17:21The GUI should be better. A lot better.
2:05AT&T 1993 "You Will" Ads
56:30How to Invent the Future II - Stanford CS183F: Startup School
18:44The Smalltalk-80 Programming System
16:48Yesterday's Computer of Tomorrow: The Xerox Alto │Smalltalk-76 Demo
47:57Here I Stand, at Age 80
![Three-Dimensional Mid-Air Acoustic Manipulation [Acoustic Levitation] (2014-)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/odJxJRAxdFU/hq2.jpg)
2:25Three-Dimensional Mid-Air Acoustic Manipulation [Acoustic Levitation] (2014-)
14:55The Incredible Machine (1968)
5:00Touché: Enhancing Touch Interaction on Humans, Screens, Liquids, and Everyday Objects
14:17Grail Demo from CHM tape
13:59Liber Indigo - Metaphysical Prisoners of the Desktop
9:52Star7 Demo
2:45:31Alan Kay Interview (1990)
1:33:47Oral History of Adele Goldberg
3:57Welcome to Project Soli
1:001984 Apple's First Macintosh Commercial
7:05Susan Kare demonstrating the Macintosh Interface in 1984
3:23Applied Sciences Group: High Performance Touch
26:52The Computer Chronicles - Hypercard (1987)
4:18BLIT: an early Windowed Graphic Interface from Bell Labs - AT&T Archives
2:20:15The Final Demonstration of the Xerox 'Star' computer
10:35LGR Tech Tales - General Magic: Creating the Cloud
1:01Realistic and Interactive Robot Gaze
5:51Susan Kare explains Macintosh UI ergonomics on the Computer Chronicles (1984)
1:14:16Upgrading From Windows 1.0 to Windows 8 On Actual Hardware
1:20:48Alan Kay : July 2007 : A Conversation with CMU Faculty & Students
7:12Donald Sherman orders a pizza using a talking computer, Dec 4, 1974
10:2304.Secret History of Microsoft Bob
1:10:32Rethinking CS Education | Alan Kay, CrossRoads 2015
2:41:02Living organisms can’t survive in their own waste products - Alan Kay
1:00:10A Vision of New Age with Alan Kay 1988 (VPRI 0224)
10:34Alan Kay on Learning
14:02Computers for Cynics 2 - It All Went Wrong at Xerox PARC
13:23Tablet Newspaper (1994)
1:04:06The Augmentation of Douglas Engelbart | Full Documentary
7:34IBM introduces "Pointing Stick" (TrackPoint) (1990)
15:43Starfire Director's Cut
1:21:58The Xerox Alto: A Personal Retrospective
15:23GENESYS: An Interactive Computer-Mediated Animation System
42:38VCF East: Xerox Star vs. Apple Lisa
4:05Low-Cost Multi-touch Whiteboard using the Wiimote
![Ted Nelson -- Computers for Cynics [full version]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hZ3gmh-d9oI/hq2.jpg)
1:49:34Ted Nelson -- Computers for Cynics [full version]
16:51Viewpoint demo — Scott Kim's PhD project, Stanford University 1988
10:17F-F-F-Flowsheets v2 🎉🎉🎉 demo
3:41Amazing Technology Invented By MIT - Tangible Media
1:20:38MacPaint Interview and Demonstration, with Bill Atkinson and Andy Herzfeld
1:57:00Origins of the Apple Human Interface
52:41Alto System Project: Larry Tesler demonstration of Gypsy
34:591969 Engelbart Demo - ASIS Conference (1/3)
2:40Inky: A Sloppy Command Line for the Web
4:47holoportation: virtual 3D teleportation in real-time (Microsoft Research)
18:49Internal NeXT video (1991)
30:02Lisa: Steve Jobs’ sabotage and Apple’s secret burial | FULL DOCUMENTARY
55:27Some Reflections on Early History by J.C.R. Licklider (VPRI 0093)
5:51Interactive Dynamic Video
49:42Alan Kay: Computer Applications: A Dynamic Medium for Creative Thought 1972 (VPRI 893)
9:50Chain of Fools : Upgrading through every version of windows (HQ)
37:38Bliss - The Story of Windows XP’s Famous Default Wallpaper
9:25TRON Smart House
1:02:13The Rise of Microsoft Windows Part 1: Windows 1.0
6:23Seymour Papert
0:38Alan Kay on Linux
14:02Ted Nelson and Doug Engelbart come to dinner
3:52Ted Nelson in Herzog's "Lo and Behold"
58:07Keynote: Making Progress — Alan Kay
2:49Longhorn concept
3:00:23Oral History of Larry Tesler, part 1 of 3
10:00New Game in Town
26:44Config 2024: In defense of an old pixel (Marcin Wichary, Director of Design, Figma) | Figma
8:01Xerox Star User Interface (1982) 2 of 2
24:01Justin Falcone: The Origin of HyperCard in the Breakdown of the Bicycle for the Mind
18:27Programming with On-Line Graphics
9:35Macworld San Francisco 2000-The Mac OS X Introduction (Pt.1)
9:32Exploring Large Tables with Table Lens - 1994 - Ramana Rao & Stuart Card
1:01Xerox Parc - Office Alto Commercial
7:19Documents as User Interfaces Video Demo
6:15Canon Cat
1:47:53The Apple Lisa: The Machine That Invented the Mac | Full Documentary #apple50
9:41How Steve Jobs got the ideas of GUI from XEROX
1:22AlterEgo: Interfacing with devices through silent speech
19:17SYMBOLICS CONCORDIA ONLINE DOCUMENTATION HYPER TEXT MARKUP 1985
36:56UIST 2019 Visions - Michel Beaudouin-Lafon: A World Without Apps
56:23Inventing the Computer Mouse | Douglas Engelbart | Talks at Google
11:54Alternate Reality Kit by Randall Smith at Xerox PARC 1986 (VPRI-0131)
2:16Alan Kay shows the Rand tablet
8:19Code Bubbles: Rethinking the User Interface Paradigm of Integrated Development Environments
3:56CreativeLive Asks Photoshop Experts to Open Photoshop 1.0
2:54:30Interview with Alan Kay
1:37:13GUIと歩んだ75年 ～私の見てきたユーザーインターフェース～【アラン・ケイ 氏】POST Dev 2025｜ニジボックス主催
6:03Bill Atkinson: Hypercard
2:04:07History of The Graphical User Interface (GUI): A Wonderful Curse
1:51:31CHM Live | Yesterday's Computer of Tomorrow: The Xerox Alto
6:18PARC scientist Larry Tesler recalls Jobs' famous Xerox visits
51:52Notes on Icons and Design with Susan Kare
54:04Video Ethnography of "ICARUS " on the Xerox Alto
24:30Bill Atkinson: Polaroids showing the Evolution of the Lisa GUI
6:16SIEUFERD: A Visual Query System
2:35Digits Hand Tracker: Freehand 3D Computer Interaction Without Gloves
1:21Put That There (Original)
10:21Ted Nelson on Zigzag data structures
32:55Magic Cap Introduction Demo 1/6/94
1:23:32Alan Kay - 2012 SCIx Keynote Presentation
1:14:54Clippy: The Unauthorized Biography
16:35The World Premiere of the Amiga (1985, Andy Warhol, Debbie Harry)
1:05:46Alan Kay, 2018: The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Create It. But Is It Already Too Late?
36:42Bill Atkinson | Lisa Source Code
1:07Windows 1.0 with Steve Ballmer (1986) (HQ, 60FPS)
4:46Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote
3:03How we type: Movement Strategies and Performance in Everyday Typing - Aalto University Research
56:32Microsoft Windows 95 video Guide with Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry
3:50Metamaterial Mechanisms (UIST'16)
8:07Seymour Papert 1983
1:11:16VCF East XI -- Ted Nelson
36:19Ted Talking Fast: How Computer Documents Got Dumbed Down-- and the Alternative
19:49BeOS Demo Video
7:48Apple and Steve Jobs' Biggest Mistakes Ep 1 - The Macintosh
0:46Alan Kay on Computer Science Degree
1:57:42CHM Live | Insanely Great: The Apple Mac at 40
3:59Blit Terminal (1982)
4:55Interactive Sketching of Urban Procedural Models - SIGGRAPH 2016
10:21The First Tiling Window Manager - Siemens RTL Tiled Window Manager (released in 1988)
3:10Pteromys: Interactive Design and Optimization of Free-formed Free-flight Model Airplanes
5:02T.E.D.D.Y. (Draw in 2D - Outputs in 3D)
1:50Before Siri and Alexa, there was ELIZA
1:02:20Ultorg: A General-Purpose User Interface for Relational Databases
10:29Xerox Alto Restoration Part 16 - our disk goes down, the Alto connects to Google and draws fractals
1:55Atari 8-bit GUI: Low-level GFX Rewrite
28:42The Computer Chronicles - Windows 3.0 (1990)
3:37PrintScreen: Fabricating Highly Customizable Thin-film Touch-Displays
56:25Tangible Functional Programming
4:04The Blit - The first Unix graphical multi-programming terminal by Rob Pike and Bart Locanthi
12:57Xanadu Basics 1b-- INDIRECT DOCUMENT DELIVERY
2:38Motorcar Compositor Demo 1
1:56:40Dynabook: The Complete Story
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