PARC Movies

If you recall your computer history properly, Xerox PARC was the source of modern computing. Sure, many came before them and many after but the idea of a GUI, a mouse and a window'ed environment is largely attributed to them. But have you ever seen it? I'd only seen glimpses and clips.

So, encountering this 25-minute PARC demo is pretty fascinating. At first glance it seems like a fairly rudimentary batch of mouse usage and clicking on text. However it's not far off from what we're doing now, 30+ years after its inception. Oh, and as a total bonus, it's got some great glitch and weathering to the video, so you could watch it purely for that.