http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-vcErOPofQ

Admiral Grace Hopper joined the U.S. Navy in 1944 at the age of 37. She was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer and wrote the first compiler for a computer programming language. When asked by Letterman how she knew so much about computers then, Hopper responds: “I didn’t. It was the first one”. In this video, Admiral Hopper explains to David Letterman what a nanosecond is: “When an admiral asks you why it takes so damn long to send a message via satellite, you point out to him that between here and the satellite there are a very large number of nanoseconds”.

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Admiral Grace Hopper Explains Nanoseconds appeared first on Witnify.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK-7HEvfJUI

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg explains in a 2012 interview at TechCrunch Disrupt how not focusing on mobile traffic hurt his company’s initial public offering (IPO) and describes the worst mistake the company has ever made.

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Zuckerberg Admits His Biggest Mistake appeared first on Witnify.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzBklEhdK_Y

In this in-depth speech Steve Jobs explains exactly how the first Apple computer was built with “liberated” parts and describes how he and Steve Wozniak founded Apple Inc.

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Steve Jobs Explains the Founding of Apple appeared first on Witnify.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySgjLh0C1pE

Ron Wayne, Apple’s third co-founder, discusses how the idea for the company originated and describes the meeting he had with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak that led him to invest.

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Ron Wayne on the Beginning of Apple Inc. appeared first on Witnify.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPyI_RtHFGU

Apple’s Steve Wozniak explains why Ron Wayne, Apple’s original 3rd investor, decided to sell his shares before the company had its big break.

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Steve Wozniak on the Lost Apple Co-Founder appeared first on Witnify.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIRZebE8O84

Famed science writer Arthur C. Clarke predicts the modern internet and home computer in this 1974 interview with ABC. He discusses how the advancement of technology will improve human life and comments on the social changes a computer connected to the internet will have. Clarke died on March 18, 2008 at the age of 90.

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Clarke Predicts the Internet & Personal Computer appeared first on Witnify.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3mTTtxGafo

Harry Garland, an original member of the Homebrew Computer Club, remembers when Bill Gates pleaded with the Club to stop copying Altair BASIC, an act considered the first form of software piracy. The Homebrew Computer Club held its first meeting on March 5, 1975.

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Harry Garland on the First Case of Software Piracy appeared first on Witnify.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3mTTtxGafo

Lee Felsenstein, moderator of the Homebrew Computer Club, describes the process members had to follow if they wanted to speak and remembers using humor to control the arguments that would commonly break out. The Homebrew Computer Club held its first meeting on March 5, 1975.

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Lee Felsenstein Explains the Homebrew Computer Club Rules appeared first on Witnify.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3mTTtxGafo

Steve Wozniack, co-founder of Apple, explains how his participation in the Homebrew Computer Club inspired the software and hardware he later created. The Homebrew Computer Club held its first meeting on March 5, 1975.

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Steve Wozniack Explains How Homebrew Inspired His Work appeared first on Witnify.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odcXGIQuxAg

Al Alcorn discusses what it was like being the boss at Atari Inc. to a young Steve Jobs. His first-person account reveals how he hired Jobs who had no experience with technology.

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Allan Alcorn on the Death of Steve Jobs appeared first on Witnify.