Videos about com­puter his­tory are good. Pre­sen­ta­tions by Dou­glas Crock­ford are great. A pre­sen­ta­tion by Dou­glas Crock­ford on the sub­ject of com­puter his­tory is like a space­ship full of peanut but­ter crash land­ing on a planet made of chocolate.

Here, Crock­ford takes us on a tour through the his­tory of com­puter input devices and pro­gram­ming to under­stand how we got to the cur­rent state-​of-​the-​art.