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Bill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991)
Crapkai · 0 HN recommenders · 0 recommendation months
Recommended by 0 Hacker News commenters across 0 months (2020–2025).
SignalTube analysis
Among 11 other demo videos tagged Tech pioneers & interviews, the mean is 3.1 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 0 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 0 distinct months; the peer average is 3.3 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
0% of its 4 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2020–2025; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 3 minutes 0 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2016-05-23.
- Channel / speaker
- Crapkai
- Verified runtime
- 3m 0s
- YouTube upload date
- 2016-05-23
- Hacker News mention years
- 2020–2025
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other demo videos in Tech pioneers & interviews. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991)Current video | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | 3m 0s | 2016-05-23 |
| The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)demo · Marcel | 8 | 8 | 40% | No recorded overlap | 100m 53s | 2012-07-09 |
| Alan Kay's tribute to Ted Nelson at "Intertwingled" Festivaldemo · TheTedNelson | 7 | 10 | 55% | No recorded overlap | 17m 33s | 2014-11-01 |
| Stephen Wolfram's Introduction to the Wolfram Languagedemo · Wolfram | 4 | 4 | 50% | No recorded overlap | 12m 56s | 2014-02-24 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Vibe coding: What is it good for? Absolutely nothing”. Its short rationale: Bill Gates' 1991 Visual Basic introduction as precedent for no-developer promises.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “IDEs we had 30 years ago”. Its short rationale: Bill Gates demoing Visual Basic in 1991.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Ask HN: Best dev tool pitches of all time?”. Its short rationale: Revolutionary drag-and-drop Windows GUI building demo.