This roundup invites you to dive into the world of IT through videos🎞 about unsolved mysteries of the internet, how torrents work, the biography of Pavel Durov, revolutionary chips on a glass substrate, and the history of freedom of online content. Easy watching😉.
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Video 1️⃣ - The history of X11 and the X Window System
The story of the emergence and development of the legendary X Window System — the graphical subsystem of many Linux distributions and BSD systems.
Video 2️⃣ - How Microsoft got its fateful contract
The video covers a key moment in Microsoft’s history: signing the contract with IBM. The video also includes an interesting analysis of the Gates family genealogy and the history of their circle.
Video 3️⃣ - The history of BlackBerry’s collapse
This video tells the story of the rise and fall of the once-famous Canadian company BlackBerry, the manufacturer of one of the world’s most popular smartphones.
Video 4️⃣ - Insane anti-piracy protection from the 80s
The video talks about some unthinkable methods of (futile) protection of digital intellectual property, at the dawn of the gaming industry. At that time, a lot was tested by crude trial and error. And it was interesting)
Video 5️⃣ - What was the internet before the internet?
This video talks about the significance of the FIDONet network, which became an important part of the history of the internet’s development. It was an amateur and non-commercial initiative started by Tom Jennings in 1984.
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