A Brief History of Jupyter Notebooks

Explore the evolution and impact of Jupyter Notebooks in this 31-minute EuroPython 2020 conference talk. Trace the development of computational notebooks from their inception with Mathematica in 1988 through the rise of open-source scientific tools in Python. Discover how IPython Notebook evolved into Jupyter and examine the expanding ecosystem, including JupyterLab, Voilà, and Binder. Learn about increased language support beyond Julia, Python, and R, and gain insights into future trends such as enhanced IDE-like capabilities, real-time collaboration, and potential solutions for Git integration challenges. Understand the historical context, current landscape, and future possibilities of this widely-used tool in the Python community.