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Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad DemoYouTubeBefore the mouse or the desktop window, there was a graduate student drawing straight onto a screen with a light pen. Ivan Sutherland built Sketchpad on MIT Lincoln Laboratory's TX-2 computer for his 1963 PhD thesis, and this footage shows ideas that now feel too obvious to have been invented:…0 - 2
The Mother of All Demos, Douglas Engelbart (1968)YouTubeIf you watch only one recording here, make it this one. On December 9, 1968, at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco, Douglas Engelbart and his team showed the mouse, linked hypertext, on-screen text editing and a live video link to colleagues in Menlo Park, all in a single…0 - 3
Steve Jobs Introduces the Macintosh (1984)YouTubeSteve Jobs unveiled the Macintosh at Apple's shareholder meeting in the Flint Center in Cupertino on January 24, 1984, and the demo still lands four decades on. The machine runs its own slideshow of scrolling lettering and screenshots, then speaks in a synthesized voice: "Hello, I am Macintosh. It…0 - 4
Microsoft Windows 95 Launch Event (1995)YouTubeThis is the full recording of the event at which Microsoft launched Windows 95 on August 24, 1995, with Jay Leno hosting and Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer on stage. Windows 95 brought the Start button and taskbar, two ideas still sitting at the bottom of every Windows screen more than thirty years…0 - 5
Apple Introduces the First iPod (2001)YouTubeApple introduced the iPod on October 23, 2001 with a promise short enough for a billboard: 1,000 songs in your pocket. The original stored them on a 5 GB hard drive and could load a whole CD in under 10 seconds over FireWire, the practical details that explain why it beat the bulkier players…0 - 6
Jeff Han: The Radical Promise of the Multi-Touch Interface (TED 2006)TEDRecorded in February 2006, nearly a year before the iPhone was shown, this eight-minute talk has Jeff Han working a cheap, pressure-sensitive multi-touch screen with his hands rather than a mouse pointer, at a time when that still looked like science fiction.
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Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone (2007)YouTubeAt Macworld San Francisco on January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs presented what sounded like three products, a phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls and an internet communicator, before revealing they were one device. The demos that follow show the features every smartphone went on to copy:…0 - 8
Google's First Android Demo (2007)YouTubePublished when Google released its first Android software kit to developers in November 2007, this short video has Google's Sergey Brin and Android engineering director Steve Horowitz showing prototype phones, one in a Palm-style smartphone shape, running text messaging, Google Maps,…0 - 9
Steve Jobs Introduces the App Store and iPhone SDK (2008)YouTubeOn March 6, 2008, Apple announced the iPhone software development kit, a developer program and the App Store, a single place for outside developers to deliver their apps wirelessly to iPhone and iPod touch owners. When the store opened that July, it had more than 500 apps on day one.
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Steve Jobs Introduces the iPad (2010)YouTubeSteve Jobs introduced the iPad in San Francisco on January 27, 2010, presenting it as a new category of device between the phone and the laptop. It started at $499, could run almost all of the App Store's 140,000-plus apps on day one, and arrived with a new iBookstore for reading.
The lasting…0