HCI pioneers & visionary demos

81 videos · Douglas Engelbart's Mother of All Demos, Ivan Sutherland Sketchpad, Alan Kay, Ted Nelson, Vannevar Bush, Jef Raskin, visionary interface demos and interviews.

Alan Kay at OOPSLA 1997 - The computer revolution hasnt happened yet1:04:33

Alan Kay at OOPSLA 1997 - The computer revolution hasnt happened yet

Jeff Gonis
127K views • 13 years ago
Apple Knowledge Navigator Video (1987)5:46

Apple Knowledge Navigator Video (1987)

Mac History
236K views • 14 years ago
Alto System Project: Dan Ingalls demonstrates Smalltalk2:08:02

Alto System Project: Dan Ingalls demonstrates Smalltalk

Computer History Museum
36K views • 7 years ago
The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)1:40:53

The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)

Marcel
1.2M views • 14 years ago
Alan Kay's tribute to Ted Nelson at "Intertwingled" Festival17:33

Alan Kay's tribute to Ted Nelson at "Intertwingled" Festival

TheTedNelson
41K views • 12 years ago
Alan Kay, 2015: Power of Simplicity51:07

Alan Kay, 2015: Power of Simplicity

Kenneth Friedman
145K views • 11 years ago
Ted Nelson struggles with uncomprehending radio interviewer, 197925:48

Ted Nelson struggles with uncomprehending radio interviewer, 1979

TheTedNelson
19K views • 9 years ago
How to Invent the Future I - Stanford CS183F: Startup School58:02

How to Invent the Future I - Stanford CS183F: Startup School

Stanford Online
40K views • 9 years ago
Alan Kay - Normal Considered Harmful1:07:26

Alan Kay - Normal Considered Harmful

powerfuloutlet
60K views • 14 years ago
Alan Kay - Programming and Scaling56:39

Alan Kay - Programming and Scaling

Colin McDonnell
36K views • 11 years ago
Alan Kay: Doing with Images Makes Symbols (Full Version)1:37:45

Alan Kay: Doing with Images Makes Symbols (Full Version)

Kenneth Friedman
44K views • 11 years ago
Ivan Sutherland Sketchpad Demo 196319:20

Ivan Sutherland Sketchpad Demo 1963

Interface Studies
136K views • 14 years ago
Ted Nelson's Eulogy for Douglas Engelbart7:26

Ted Nelson's Eulogy for Douglas Engelbart

Computer History Museum
17K views • 12 years ago
Computers for Cynics 0 - The Myth of Technology14:46

Computers for Cynics 0 - The Myth of Technology

TheTedNelson
33K views • 14 years ago
Founder School Session: The Future Doesn't Have to Be Incremental43:50

Founder School Session: The Future Doesn't Have to Be Incremental

DEMO
47K views • 12 years ago
Ted Nelson demonstrates Xanadu Space7:32

Ted Nelson demonstrates Xanadu Space

photonhunter
84K views • 18 years ago
Douglas Adams - Hyperland49:22

Douglas Adams - Hyperland

UJ ObscureMedia
55K views • 12 years ago
Leap Technology17:34

Leap Technology

aamoviebb
25K views • 15 years ago
Xanadu Basics 1a - VISIBLE CONNECTION12:23

Xanadu Basics 1a - VISIBLE CONNECTION

TheTedNelson
20K views • 8 years ago
AT&T 1993 "You Will" Ads2:05

AT&T 1993 "You Will" Ads

appealing
1.9M views • 19 years ago
How to Invent the Future II - Stanford CS183F: Startup School56:30

How to Invent the Future II - Stanford CS183F: Startup School

Stanford Online
26K views • 9 years ago
Yesterday's Computer of Tomorrow: The Xerox Alto │Smalltalk-76 Demo16:48

Yesterday's Computer of Tomorrow: The Xerox Alto │Smalltalk-76 Demo

Computer History Museum
38K views • 8 years ago
Here I Stand, at Age 8047:57

Here I Stand, at Age 80

TheTedNelson
25K views • 9 years ago
The Incredible Machine (1968)14:55

The Incredible Machine (1968)

01DOGG01
1.1M views • 13 years ago
Grail Demo from CHM tape14:17

Grail Demo from CHM tape

Yoshiki Ohshima (大島芳樹)
13K views • 7 years ago
Liber Indigo - Metaphysical Prisoners of the Desktop13:59

Liber Indigo - Metaphysical Prisoners of the Desktop

Krkwd
154K views • 1 year ago
Alan Kay Interview (1990)2:45:31

Alan Kay Interview (1990)

Every Alan Kay Video
14K views • 9 years ago
Oral History of Adele Goldberg1:33:47

Oral History of Adele Goldberg

Computer History Museum
14K views • 13 years ago
The Final Demonstration of the Xerox 'Star' computer2:20:15

The Final Demonstration of the Xerox 'Star' computer

Computer History Museum
22K views • 13 years ago
Alan Kay : July 2007 : A Conversation with CMU Faculty & Students1:20:48

Alan Kay : July 2007 : A Conversation with CMU Faculty & Students

CMU Robotics Institute
13K views • 10 years ago
Donald Sherman orders a pizza using a talking computer, Dec 4, 19747:12

Donald Sherman orders a pizza using a talking computer, Dec 4, 1974

John Eulenberg
229K views • 16 years ago
Rethinking CS Education | Alan Kay, CrossRoads 20151:10:32

Rethinking CS Education | Alan Kay, CrossRoads 2015

Infosys Foundation USA
28K views • 10 years ago
Living organisms can’t survive in their own waste products - Alan Kay2:41:02

Living organisms can’t survive in their own waste products - Alan Kay

Nerdearla
24K views • 5 years ago
A Vision of New Age with Alan Kay 1988 (VPRI 0224)1:00:10

A Vision of New Age with Alan Kay 1988 (VPRI 0224)

Yoshiki Ohshima (大島芳樹)
3K views • 8 years ago
Alan Kay on Learning10:34

Alan Kay on Learning

eucroix
35K views • 18 years ago
Computers for Cynics 2 - It All Went Wrong at Xerox PARC14:02

Computers for Cynics 2 - It All Went Wrong at Xerox PARC

TheTedNelson
23K views • 14 years ago
Tablet Newspaper (1994)13:23

Tablet Newspaper (1994)

Matt Novak
960K views • 15 years ago
The Augmentation of Douglas Engelbart | Full Documentary1:04:06

The Augmentation of Douglas Engelbart | Full Documentary

Project 1
20K views • 6 years ago
Starfire Director's Cut15:43

Starfire Director's Cut

Matthias Müller-Prove
12K views • 14 years ago
The Xerox Alto: A Personal Retrospective1:21:58

The Xerox Alto: A Personal Retrospective

Computer History Museum
29K views • 16 years ago
GENESYS: An Interactive Computer-Mediated Animation System15:23

GENESYS: An Interactive Computer-Mediated Animation System

Bill Buxton
36K views • 15 years ago
Ted Nelson -- Computers for Cynics [full version]1:49:34

Ted Nelson -- Computers for Cynics [full version]

Colin McDonnell
11K views • 11 years ago
Origins of the Apple Human Interface1:57:00

Origins of the Apple Human Interface

Computer History Museum
13K views • 7 years ago
Alto System Project: Larry Tesler demonstration of Gypsy52:41

Alto System Project: Larry Tesler demonstration of Gypsy

Computer History Museum
31K views • 7 years ago
1969 Engelbart Demo - ASIS Conference (1/3)34:59

1969 Engelbart Demo - ASIS Conference (1/3)

Doug Engelbart Institute
2K views • 8 years ago
Some Reflections on Early History by J.C.R. Licklider (VPRI 0093)55:27

Some Reflections on Early History by J.C.R. Licklider (VPRI 0093)

Yoshiki Ohshima (大島芳樹)
17K views • 11 years ago
Alan Kay: Computer Applications: A Dynamic Medium for Creative Thought 1972 (VPRI 893)49:42

Alan Kay: Computer Applications: A Dynamic Medium for Creative Thought 1972 (VPRI 893)

Yoshiki Ohshima (大島芳樹)
9K views • 11 years ago
Seymour Papert6:23

Seymour Papert

Seth Morabito
44K views • 17 years ago
Alan Kay on Linux0:38

Alan Kay on Linux

Jack
20K views • 12 years ago
Ted Nelson and Doug Engelbart come to dinner14:02

Ted Nelson and Doug Engelbart come to dinner

Howard Rheingold
3K views • 13 years ago
Ted Nelson in Herzog's "Lo and Behold"3:52

Ted Nelson in Herzog's "Lo and Behold"

TheTedNelson
42K views • 9 years ago
Keynote: Making Progress — Alan Kay58:07

Keynote: Making Progress — Alan Kay

ChariotSolutions
20K views • 5 years ago
Oral History of Larry Tesler, part 1 of 33:00:23

Oral History of Larry Tesler, part 1 of 3

Computer History Museum
3K views • 6 years ago
New Game in Town10:00

New Game in Town

TheTedNelson
25K views • 10 years ago
Xerox Star User Interface (1982) 2 of 28:01

Xerox Star User Interface (1982) 2 of 2

VintageCG
57K views • 17 years ago
Programming with On-Line Graphics18:27

Programming with On-Line Graphics

Bill Buxton
5K views • 15 years ago
Canon Cat6:15

Canon Cat

Storia Informatica
17K views • 12 years ago
How Steve Jobs got the ideas of GUI from XEROX9:41

How Steve Jobs got the ideas of GUI from XEROX

Ringo Pebam
272K views • 12 years ago
SYMBOLICS CONCORDIA ONLINE DOCUMENTATION HYPER TEXT MARKUP 198519:17

SYMBOLICS CONCORDIA ONLINE DOCUMENTATION HYPER TEXT MARKUP 1985

Red Martian
4K views • 13 years ago
Inventing the Computer Mouse | Douglas Engelbart | Talks at Google56:23

Inventing the Computer Mouse | Douglas Engelbart | Talks at Google

Talks at Google
30K views • 19 years ago
Alan Kay shows the Rand tablet2:16

Alan Kay shows the Rand tablet

Larry press
9K views • 16 years ago
Interview with Alan Kay2:54:30

Interview with Alan Kay

Gardner Campbell
11K views • 12 years ago
GUI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1:37:13

GUI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

株式会社ニジボックス
2K views • 10 months ago
Bill Atkinson: Hypercard6:03

Bill Atkinson: Hypercard

TWiT Tech Podcast Network
10K views • 10 years ago
CHM Live | Yesterday's Computer of Tomorrow: The Xerox Alto1:51:31

CHM Live | Yesterday's Computer of Tomorrow: The Xerox Alto

Computer History Museum
20K views • 8 years ago
PARC scientist Larry Tesler recalls Jobs' famous Xerox visits6:18

PARC scientist Larry Tesler recalls Jobs' famous Xerox visits

Mac History
28K views • 14 years ago
Bill Atkinson: Polaroids showing the Evolution of the Lisa GUI24:30

Bill Atkinson: Polaroids showing the Evolution of the Lisa GUI

Computer History Museum
13K views • 1 year ago
Put That There (Original)1:21

Put That There (Original)

Stefan Marti
408K views • 20 years ago
Ted Nelson on Zigzag data structures10:21

Ted Nelson on Zigzag data structures

photonhunter
22K views • 18 years ago
Alan Kay - 2012 SCIx Keynote Presentation1:23:32

Alan Kay - 2012 SCIx Keynote Presentation

SCIInstitute
13K views • 13 years ago
Alan Kay, 2018: The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Create It. But Is It Already Too Late?1:05:46

Alan Kay, 2018: The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Create It. But Is It Already Too Late?

Kenneth Friedman
9K views • 7 years ago
Bill Atkinson | Lisa Source Code36:42

Bill Atkinson | Lisa Source Code

Computer History Museum
11K views • 1 year ago
Seymour Papert 19838:07

Seymour Papert 1983

Cynthia Solomon
28K views • 19 years ago
VCF East XI -- Ted Nelson1:11:16

VCF East XI -- Ted Nelson

Vintage Computer Federation
357 views • 10 years ago
Ted Talking Fast: How Computer Documents Got Dumbed Down-- and the Alternative36:19

Ted Talking Fast: How Computer Documents Got Dumbed Down-- and the Alternative

TheTedNelson
857 views • 8 years ago
Alan Kay on Computer Science Degree0:46

Alan Kay on Computer Science Degree

Kenneth Friedman
6K views • 11 years ago
CHM Live | Insanely Great: The Apple Mac at 401:57:42

CHM Live | Insanely Great: The Apple Mac at 40

Computer History Museum
23K views • 2 years ago
Before Siri and Alexa, there was ELIZA1:50

Before Siri and Alexa, there was ELIZA

Emma Goldman
155K views • 9 years ago
Xanadu Basics 1b-- INDIRECT DOCUMENT DELIVERY12:57

Xanadu Basics 1b-- INDIRECT DOCUMENT DELIVERY

TheTedNelson
5K views • 8 years ago
Dynabook: The Complete Story1:56:40

Dynabook: The Complete Story

Computer History Museum
7K views • 9 years ago
How Complex is "Personal Computing"?1:17:53

How Complex is "Personal Computing"?

RandomSamples
3K views • 11 years ago