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Tech-related entertainment I have enjoyed.

Documentaries

Mostly early computer history.

• AT&T Archives: The UNIX Operating System (1982) - Brian Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson
• Triumph of the Nerds (1996) - Cringely three-parter on the Altair, IBM PC, Apple, and Microsoft
• Code Rush (2000) - Netscape and open source
• Revolution OS (2001) - Linux and Open Source
• The Internet's Own Boy (2014) - Aaron Swartz

Fictional Movies

Films which explore computing or technology or related concepts in some way.

• Potentially relevant - Soylent Green, Logan's Run, Silent Running
• Tron (1982)
• WarGames (1983)
• Short Circuit (1986)
• The Wizard (1989)
• Hardware aka MARK 13 (1990)
• Freejack (1992)
• Sneakers (1992)
• Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
• Strange Days (1995)
• Hackers (1995)
• Screamers (1995)
• The Net (1995)
• The Matrix (1999)
• eXistenZ (1999)
• Swordfish (2005)
• Minority Report (2002)
• Tron Legacy (2010)
• Her (2013)
• Transcendence (2014)
• Ex Machina (2014)

Podcasts

• DOS Nostalgia - DOS Games and general early home computing
• Fork Bomb - Early computing
• Retrobits - Really early vintage computing
• Upper Memory Block - DOS Games

Books

• Accidental Empires by Robert X Cringely (1992)
• Code by Charles Petzold (1999)
• Countdown to Zero Day by Kim Zetter (2014)
• Dealers of Lightning by Michael Hiltzik (1999)
• Fire in the Valley by Paul Frieberger (1984)
• Free as in Freedom by Sam Williams (2002)
• Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick (2011)
• Hackers by Steven Levy (1984)
• Hard Drive by Wallace and Erickson (1992)
• How the Internet Happened by Brian McCullough (2018)
• iWoz by Steve Wozniak (2006)
• Infinite Loop by Michael Malone (1999)
• In the Beginning... Was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson (1999)
• Just for Fun by Linus Torvalds (2001)
• Masters of Doom by David Kushner (2003)
• My Tiny Life by Julian Dibbell (1999)
• On The Edge by Brian Bagnall (2005)
• Return to the Little Kingdom by Michael Moritz (2009)
• Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (1981)
• Technopoly by Neil Postman (1992)
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S Raymond (1999)
• The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll (1989)
• The Dream Machine by Michael Waldrop (2001)
• The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner (2012)
• The Master Switch by Tim Wu (2010)
• The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P Brooks Jr (1975)
• What the Dormouse Said by John Markoff (2005)
• Where Wizards Stay Up Late by Katie Hafner (1996)

More Lists

• https://github.com/watson/awesome-computer-history
• http://wiki.ucc.asn.au/MovieNight
• http://www.imdb.com/list/ls008887137/
• http://www.imdb.com/list/ls003146877
• https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/13430.Silicon_Valley_History
• https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/11027.Essential_Computer_History_and_Information_Revolution_Books