Grace Hopper documentary - "The Queen of Code"

The Queen of Code at FiveThirtyEight

https://youtu.be/Qwwf866Cfdg (no longer available)

Also, an interview with the director of the short film at NPR, on All Tech Considered: Grace Hopper, ‘The Queen Of Code,’ Would Have Hated That Title

The moth, or first computer “bug” mentioned in the video and audio above.

There’s also a Grace Hopper GitHub sticker (shown below) called the “Gracehoptocat.” The sticker was given out at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.

Grace Hopper GitHub sitcker, "Gracehoptocat"

[sidenote: The video clip on FiveThirtyEight has a Javascript embed code, which won’t work on WordPress without some tinkering. Thankfully, “The Queen of Code” video is also hosted on YouTube as shown in this post.]

[sidenote to the sidenote: Now in 2025, most links are broken, the videos are not viewable and 538 or fivethirtyeight.com is being shut-down.]

(Originally published on my old site, "The Digital Imaginary" [imaginary.digital], on March 26th, 2015 -- revised and republished April 1st, 2025.)

The Machine That Changed the World - video series

Thanks to Andy Baio, all five parts of The Machine That Changed the World are available online: http://waxy.org/2008/06/the_machine_that_changed_the_world/

The Machine That Changed the World is the longest, most comprehensive documentary about the history of computing ever produced, but since its release in 1992, it's become virtually extinct. Out of print and never released online, the only remaining copies are VHS tapes floating around school libraries or in the homes of fans who dubbed the original shows when they aired.

All 5 episodes are (sort of) available on YouTube.

(Originally published on my old site, “The Digital Imaginary” [imaginary.digital], on February 19th, 2015 – revised and republished April 2nd, 2025. The YouTube videos are blocked now, “on copyright grounds,” but they still play after a moment.)