Computers and the Internet
The machines and networks everything else now runs on — how they were built, and how they actually work.
From the race to build the first computer to the cables under the ocean, the chips fought over by governments, the data centres reshaping the grid, and the day the cloud goes down. The physical reality behind things usually described as weightless.
41 films · In the channel's own order.
The Undersea Cables: The Web's 99% Vulnerability
· 33 min
Apple, a Timeline
· 24 min
Learning Photography Course - 10. Digital, from Sensor to Finished Picture
· 20 min
Nvidia and "4nm" — Blackwell, Rubin and the Node That Isn't
· 22 min
Microsoft DOS and Windows a Timeline
· 31 min
TSMC The Company Every Chip Depends On
· 15 min
How a Quantum Computer Works
· 12 min
Why the World Still Runs on COBOL
· 9 min
IBM a history of the company and its technology
· 1 h 16 min
IBM NorthPole — Inference on a 12nm Chip
· 20 min
The Barcode That Changed Everything
· 9 min
The Technology That Made Food Travel
· 12 min
Vignette, a Timeline
· 20 min
AshtonTate a Timeline
· 25 min
Compaq A Timeline
· 20 min
Digital Research a Timeline
· 24 min
Nantucket Corporation A Timeline
· 23 min
Adobe A Timeline
· 24 min
OpenText A Timeline
· 24 min
AMD a Timeline
· 29 min
Nvidia a Timeline From Graphics Cards to AI
· 10 min
CPU, Nanometres and How Chips Are Actually Made
· 26 min
Intel, a Timeline
· 29 min
Novell, a Timeline
· 26 min
Lotus Development: A Timeline
· 23 min
Robotaxis: Are Driverless Cars Finally Here?
· 17 min
The Steel Box That Shrank the World
· 23 min
The Memory Shortage: Why RAM Prices Doubled
· 18 min
Borland: A Timeline
· 23 min
Your Phone Meets Satellites: The Race to Space Signal
· 21 min
WordPerfect Corporation: A Timeline
· 21 min
The Robot Warehouse: Who's Really Doing the Picking?
· 16 min
Autodesk: From the Beginning to Now
· 19 min
The Female Codebreakers Who Helped Win WWII
· 20 min
Age Verification Online: Can the Internet Prove Who You Are?
· 18 min
The Driverless Tractor: Who's Really Farming Now
· 16 min
ASML: The One Machine China Can't Buy
· 23 min
Apple HomeKit
· 14 min
3Com: How It Began, Its Ideas, Products and the People Who Ran It
· 18 min
CP/M: From Z80 to 8086
· 15 min
How Large Language Models Actually Work
· 27 min