I was just going through my RSS feeds and spotted a post from Laughing Squid about a video IBM commissioned in 1968 as a glossary of computer terms.
I was going to send it as a joke to a mate of mine who’s doing something similar, but having watched it I was surprised that it’s all still more or less accurate. Not sure why it surprised me, after all the basic principles are all still the same. I guess I still think of this stuff as being modern! It’s easy to forget that we’re not really doing anything new… we’re just doing in differently. Hell, before computers people managed and organised data and information quite happily for centuries.
Oh… and there’s a nice bit of early DeepZooming in there too!
A computer glossary or, coming to terms with the data processing machine from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo.