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YouTube's copyright system isn't broken. The world's is.

YouTube's copyright system isn't broken. The world's is.

9M views • 6 years ago

The Problem With Facebook

The Problem With Facebook

3.1M views • 12 years ago

Unix and Google

Unix and Google

9K views • 10 years ago

(1/4) Intro/History: Introducing a 100-year-old mechanical computer

(1/4) Intro/History: Introducing a 100-year-old mechanical computer

476K views • 12 years ago

CGA Graphics - Not as bad as you thought!

CGA Graphics - Not as bad as you thought!

2.4M views • 10 years ago

Can You Watch This Without Getting Angry?

Can You Watch This Without Getting Angry?

12.1M views • 11 years ago

Mouse Cursor History (and why I made my own)

Mouse Cursor History (and why I made my own)

3M views • 8 years ago

The Most Powerful Computers You've Never Heard Of

The Most Powerful Computers You've Never Heard Of

13.7M views • 4 years ago

IBM Selectric Typewriter & its digital to analogue converter

IBM Selectric Typewriter & its digital to analogue converter

1.1M views • 16 years ago

Facebook Fraud

6.6M views • 12 years ago

How an Atomic Clock Really Works: Inside the HP 5061A Cesium Clock

How an Atomic Clock Really Works: Inside the HP 5061A Cesium Clock

464K views • 6 years ago

Flaw in the Enigma Code - Numberphile

Flaw in the Enigma Code - Numberphile

5.4M views • 13 years ago

Xanadu Basics 1a - VISIBLE CONNECTION

Xanadu Basics 1a - VISIBLE CONNECTION

20K views • 8 years ago

Cracking Enigma in 2021 - Computerphile

Cracking Enigma in 2021 - Computerphile

2.9M views • 5 years ago

How "oldschool" graphics worked Part 1 - Commodore and Nintendo

How "oldschool" graphics worked Part 1 - Commodore and Nintendo

5.7M views • 11 years ago

Emulating the DX7 the HARD way

Emulating the DX7 the HARD way

23K views • 5 years ago

Manipulating the YouTube Algorithm - (Part 1/3) Smarter Every Day 213

Manipulating the YouTube Algorithm - (Part 1/3) Smarter Every Day 213

SmarterEveryDay

2.7M views • 7 years ago

Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us

Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us

12.1M views • 19 years ago

The real reason Boeing's new plane crashed twice

The real reason Boeing's new plane crashed twice

15M views • 7 years ago

The Computer-free Automation of a Jukebox (Electromechanics)

The Computer-free Automation of a Jukebox (Electromechanics)

Technology Connections

1.3M views • 6 years ago

This Invention Made Disney MILLIONS, but Then They LOST It!

This Invention Made Disney MILLIONS, but Then They LOST It!

7.3M views • 2 years ago

Why Are Emulators Legal? Dolphin vs. Nintendo, and the Fate of Emulation [Great Emu War Pt. 1]

Why Are Emulators Legal? Dolphin vs. Nintendo, and the Fate of Emulation [Great Emu War Pt. 1]

410K views • 3 years ago

This 1970s tank simulator drives through a tiny world

This 1970s tank simulator drives through a tiny world

12M views • 4 years ago

Why Sony's Beta Videotape System Failed--and failed hard (Part 1)

Why Sony's Beta Videotape System Failed--and failed hard (Part 1)

Technology Connections

1.5M views • 9 years ago

How a Laser-Shot Disk Defeats Hackers & Pirates (Coding Secrets)

How a Laser-Shot Disk Defeats Hackers & Pirates (Coding Secrets)

132K views • 8 years ago

MENACE: the pile of matchboxes which can learn

MENACE: the pile of matchboxes which can learn

453K views • 8 years ago

Why is Japan So Weak in Software?

Why is Japan So Weak in Software?

968K views • 2 years ago

Racing the Beam Explained - Atari 2600 CPU vs. CRT Television

Racing the Beam Explained - Atari 2600 CPU vs. CRT Television

Retro Game Mechanics Explained

400K views • 5 years ago

Hold music used to sound better. Here's why.

Hold music used to sound better. Here's why.

2.9M views • 8 years ago

An astonishing old calculator - Numberphile

An astonishing old calculator - Numberphile

794K views • 8 years ago

AT&T Archives: The Step-By-Step Switch

AT&T Archives: The Step-By-Step Switch

AT&T Tech Channel

774K views • 15 years ago

The 1988 VIDEO Floppy Disk Camera: Canon Xap Shot RC-250

The 1988 VIDEO Floppy Disk Camera: Canon Xap Shot RC-250

452K views • 8 years ago

This Video Has 77,321,815 Views

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77.3M views • 6 years ago

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Why are people mean on Twitter? - Smarter Every Day 214

SmarterEveryDay

957K views • 7 years ago

Trusted Computing? Yes or No

Trusted Computing? Yes or No

47K views • 20 years ago

Typesetters in the '80s - Computerphile

Typesetters in the '80s - Computerphile

105K views • 12 years ago