code sharing
56:09Project Code Rush - The Beginnings of Netscape / Mozilla Documentary
337K views • 13 years ago
The Documentary Network
Code Rush is a one-hour documentary following Netscape engineers in Silicon Valley through the company's last year as an independent firm. It covers the Mozilla open-source announcement, the frantic push to ready the source for release by March 31, 1998, and the toll on engineers' lives before the AOL acquisition.
14:04This LA Musician Built $1,200 Tiny Houses for the Homeless. Then the City Seized Them.
4.9M views • 9 years ago
ReasonTV
Reason TV profiles Elvis Summers, a Los Angeles musician who crowdfunded dozens of tiny homes for homeless people. City officials moved to remove them while pushing a multibillion-dollar housing plan.
38:13Birth of BASIC
1.5M views • 12 years ago
Dartmouth
A Dartmouth-produced documentary on how professors John Kemeny and Tom Kurtz, with a group of undergraduates, invented the BASIC language. It covers the creation of BASIC and the early time-sharing environment at Dartmouth.
1:25:10Revolution OS
208K views • 14 years ago
Von Hash
Revolution OS is a feature-length documentary on the history of free software and Linux. It covers Stallman and the GNU project, Torvalds and the kernel, and Raymond and Perens on open source, starting from the era of freely shared hobbyist code.
56:11Always/Never: The Quest for Safety, Control, and Survivability - Part 1
303K views • 11 years ago
Sandia National Labs
Part one of Sandia National Labs' first-person documentary on the use control, detonation safety and survivability of US nuclear weapons. It covers nuclear sharing in NATO and how control of use was separated from possession, leading to the always/never problem.
8:26Part 1 - Training Video for Bell Labs' Holmdel Computing Center - AT&T Archives
59K views • 13 years ago
AT&T Tech Channel
A 1973 AT&T training film made for new employees at Bell Labs' Holmdel Computing Center, when Unix was in its third version and running at 16 computer centers in the Bell System. It shows how users submitted jobs and used the center's machines.
20:41Cuba's Underground Gaming Network
1.5M views • 8 years ago
Cloth Map
Cloth Map documents Havana's SNET, a community-built private network that Cubans created because internet prices were high. It is used for gaming and sharing.