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Title suggestions for a history of computer science mini web series?!

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Andrew Bone

Bits and PCs
Said like "bits and pieces"

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jakebman

Other "Bits" titles:

Bits to Bytes and Beyond

Bits of Complexity/Computation

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Ben Halpern • Edited
  • Ada and Friends
  • History of Code
  • Byte-sized History
  • Big O(ral) History
  • Machine History
  • Threads in Time
  • History Compiled
  • GOTO: A history of Code
  • Hard-coded History
  • While True History
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Vaidehi Joshi

OOOOH BYTE-SIZED HISTORY! love that

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Chad Windham

+1 for History Compiled

if it doesn't get used I'm going to totally steal it at some point...

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notyoyoma

Here are some ideas based on how far back you want to go:

Antikythera:
Complexity solved, ancient to modern

Mechanical Turk:
Fraud to God machines

Punch cards / mechanical calculators:
IO, from gears to Alpha Go

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Jess Lee

Ooh! Thanks for suggesting topics. I was actually looking for ideas on a title encompass a series that consists of topics similar to the ones you suggested!

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Umesh Kumar Dhakar • Edited

What about Hello World! ?

I think these two words can represent much about computer science.
And you can add something else to it to sound it better...

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Steven Bruno

DEVHistory | History of Computer Science: From Lovelace to Linux

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Ben Sinclair

Everyone's mind is immediately going to puns. I usually do the same, but I actually don't think there's much wrong with The history of computer science: a mini web series.

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Juan Julián Merelo Guervós

.history

(can't believe no one has suggested this so far)

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Rodrigo Nonose

Down the memory lane.

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rhymes

I would seriously ask some non programmer friends, maybe they come up with names that surprise you!

For example, if it were a geology mini web series I would call it: "Such things we're all made of" which is also a straight up rip off from Shakespeare's The Tempest

Well, I'm bad at naming stuff :D

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Dave Jacoby

while (true)

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