I think this is good, but it makes me wish for an even broader-scoped documentary on the history of cloud technologies.
Honestly I would love for there to be more documentaries on the more “boring” computing related stuff too, like what are the origins of VMs.
There’s a lot of pop culture material on the founding of the big tech but very little on the boring stuff without which none of this would have been possible. And my assumptions about who invented what when are always changed by talking with people who have been around for long enough.
If there were a dedicated field of Academic History dedicated to computing that would be amazing. Just having a timeline that explains the lineage of computer technologies without it being a short paragraphs in the introduction chapter in books on more specific tools, that would be great.
The top comment links to a bunch of papers.