Programming in 1983 Explained in 11 Minutes

On January 1, 1983, the network that became the internet switched itself off and on again. Programmers with 64 kilobytes of memory and no internet built the world you're watching this in — the spreadsheet, the mouse, the cell phone, and the free system that runs the web. Subscribe for new videos twice a week. This is The Drawn Lesson. 0:00 The night the internet switched itself off 0:37 The desk: 64KB and floppy disks 2:17 The work: no search engine, just manuals 3:56 The money: the spreadsheet that sold the PC 5:39 The crash: games buried in the desert 7:29 The expensive future: Lisa and the brick phone 8:47 The free future: GNU and the internet's phone book 10:37 The answer: they built your world Sources: PC World, COMPUTE! magazine, and reporting on the 1983 crash, the Lisa, the DynaTAC, and the GNU announcement. Music: 'Darkest Child' (CC-BY) Voiceover is AI-generated. [Affiliate disclosure placeholder]