When Computers Changed the World from the Revolution Exhibition

[lovelplants]

well computer help us a lot now.

[Dms12444]

I feel they should have put Dennis Ritchie in place of Zuckerberg, but that aside, great video! It really is incredible just how far we've gotten in only a century's time.

[PeeteyP]

at 1:08 she says "computers are just machines that eed to be told what to do by humans." Remember also that humans are just machines that need to be told what to do by computers.

[superprodude1]

@ 1:03 what she says will change soon

[kurt05051987]

Zuckerberg??...

[gerjaison]

Sorry i like the video but Mark Zuckerburg is a genius? A bit degrading for Alan Turing and others.

[moveaxebx]

@espinetmatt

Poor arguments there my friend. To be well known does not mean historicly important.

I can name at least dozen of others who contrbuted by far more(real engineers).

Zuckerberg is jus a nice story behind the real project. Nothing to do with real engineering.

Your POV about Stallman is childish and won't discuss any further.

[espinetmatt]

@moveaxebx all im saying is it doesnt matter. they are not going to put 500 people in a 4 minute video.

how is my pov of stallman childish? if someones a jerk to you, and thinks hes better than you. wouldn't you think poorly of that person? stop whining.

[moveaxebx]

@espinetmatt

-No they can put ~10 people (like they did) and non of the shoud be Zuckerberg.

It's like you are summerizig the history of film and show a porn star as an example. Yes, it's well know, but no cultural contibutions whatsoever and someone would argue, only devastation. It's the same thing with computer history, but through technological aspect.

[moveaxebx]

It's such a shame to put Zuckerberg there and _not_ to inlcude Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson....in fact Zuckerberg shouldn't be there in the first place.

I found them even more segnificant then mr. Gates or mr.Jobs.

What about the Xerox Parc??

[MrDylanBurich]

Whether you like Facebook or not, you can't deny he has played a huge part in the advancement of social media on the web

[shaurz]

I don't think Zuckerberg should be there...

[fedekiller]

@shaurz Agreed

[espinetmatt]

@shaurz software is nothing without the computer. the computer is nothing without software. i'm pretty sure you hear of facebook where ever you go.

[shaurz]

@espinetmatt But Facebook did nothing for computing, there were plenty of social network sites before it.

[moveaxebx]

@espinetmatt

Facebook was not first social network. Facebook did not invent any new technology. Facebook is _propagated_ social network, nothing else.

Only someone who doesn't know anything about the history of computing can claim that Zuckerberg was important. Tesla and Edison played bigger role then Zuckerberg. The author of mp3 compression did more and it's the technology we use every day and no one knows his name.

Where's Linus Torvalds?

Where's Richard Stallman?

Zuckerberg???Yeah right..

[gerjaison]

@moveaxebx - I speculate there's one thing Zuckerberg did that deserves his baby face in this video. Donated some (maybe alot of) money to Computer History Museum.

[grahas1]

@moveaxebx Yes Zuckerberg did not invent the first social network, his significance is that he created the first social network that became as widespread as it is, the one that people wanted to use. You seem to think that Edison is more important than Zuckerberg, but you fail to realize that he is exactly the same as Zuckerberg. Edison did not invent the lightbulb, but created the first practical version that people wanted to use.

It's not about who was first, but who changed things the most.

[TheDarkFalcon]

@espinetmatt I hear about pop stars all the time as well, doesnt mean that they are important.

[paskahousus]

excellent

[mafbbb]

Great vid!