X, the windowing system for Unix (and other OSs), based on when you count it from is 40 years old, and its still in use. As Wayland looks ready to take over, its time to look back at how we got X11, what we have done with it, and where it is going. This video is sponsored by PCBWay (https://www.pcbway.com/) 00:00 - Introduction 00:36 - The Elephant in the room 01:21 - V and the creation of W, which becomes X 03:04 - Why is X the way it is 03:44 - The world Unix grew up in 07:20 - A brief word from our sponsors 08:05 - From weekend hack job, to the future of the GUI 15:01 - X and its license 18:12 - X11 Adoption 22:13 - X terminals 26:06 - CDE 29:53 - The Unix workstation woes 34:24 - Open source starts to take the lead 42:56 - Everything is 3d now 44:40 - DRI 47:35 - Gnome, KDE, and Xorg 51:30 - Time to clean up X 53:50 - Wayland 56:16 - The future of X 57:24 - Thanks