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General Tech Entertainment
Jamie edited this page Nov 17, 2021
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Tech-related entertainment I have enjoyed.
Mostly early computer history.
- AT&T Archives: The UNIX Operating System (1982) - Brian Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson
- Triumph of the Nerds (1996) - Cringely three-parter on the Altair, IBM PC, Apple, and Microsoft
- Code Rush (2000) - Netscape and open source
- Revolution OS (2001) - Linux and Open Source
- The Internet's Own Boy (2014) - Aaron Swartz
Films which explore computing or technology or related concepts in some way.
- Potentially relevant - Soylent Green, Logan's Run, Silent Running
- Tron (1982)
- WarGames (1983)
- Short Circuit (1986)
- The Wizard (1989)
- Hardware aka MARK 13 (1990)
- Freejack (1992)
- Sneakers (1992)
- Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
- Strange Days (1995)
- Hackers (1995)
- Screamers (1995)
- The Net (1995)
- The Matrix (1999)
- eXistenZ (1999)
- Swordfish (2005)
- Minority Report (2002)
- Tron Legacy (2010)
- Her (2013)
- Transcendence (2014)
- Ex Machina (2014)
- DOS Nostalgia - DOS Games and general early home computing
- Fork Bomb - Early computing
- Retrobits - Really early vintage computing
- Upper Memory Block - DOS Games
- Accidental Empires by Robert X Cringely (1992)
- Code by Charles Petzold (1999)
- Countdown to Zero Day by Kim Zetter (2014)
- Dealers of Lightning by Michael Hiltzik (1999)
- Fire in the Valley by Paul Frieberger (1984)
- Free as in Freedom by Sam Williams (2002)
- Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick (2011)
- Hackers by Steven Levy (1984)
- Hard Drive by Wallace and Erickson (1992)
- How the Internet Happened by Brian McCullough (2018)
- iWoz by Steve Wozniak (2006)
- Infinite Loop by Michael Malone (1999)
- In the Beginning... Was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson (1999)
- Just for Fun by Linus Torvalds (2001)
- Masters of Doom by David Kushner (2003)
- My Tiny Life by Julian Dibbell (1999)
- On The Edge by Brian Bagnall (2005)
- Return to the Little Kingdom by Michael Moritz (2009)
- Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (1981)
- Technopoly by Neil Postman (1992)
- The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S Raymond (1999)
- The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll (1989)
- The Dream Machine by Michael Waldrop (2001)
- The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner (2012)
- The Master Switch by Tim Wu (2010)
- The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P Brooks Jr (1975)
- What the Dormouse Said by John Markoff (2005)
- Where Wizards Stay Up Late by Katie Hafner (1996)
- https://github.com/watson/awesome-computer-history
- http://wiki.ucc.asn.au/MovieNight
- http://www.imdb.com/list/ls008887137/
- http://www.imdb.com/list/ls003146877
- https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/13430.Silicon_Valley_History
- https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/11027.Essential_Computer_History_and_Information_Revolution_Books
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