Exactly, this is why I shared this video. Hearing concepts explained by those who pioneered them really brings them home, because it highlights the context in w

Exactly, this is why I shared this video. Hearing concepts explained by those who pioneered them really brings them home, because it highlights the context in which they were created, with a description of what was the trouble with computing back then and how it was solved, and the excitement of the achievement. For instance, he situates his breaktrought in a timeline where the main milestones are, first, getting computers to work at all, and, then, high level languages, to make them much easier to program (Fortran, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDsWTyLEgbk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDsWTyLEgbk). Then, time sharing made them much easier to use. The birth of the terminal, no less, which is still around and which we all take for granted (I know it's deeper than this, multiprocessing, but this is the most visible manifestation) ... Judging from this video, it also seems that he was a very good communicator.