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title: "Top 10 Best Presentations Ever"
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published: "2006-09-30T23:48:42"
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author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "A friend sent this to me the other day, and I thought it'd be a good link to have here to follow up on every once in a while. Folks, here are two folk's selection of the Top 10 Best Presentations Ever . Steve Jobs…"
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# Top 10 Best Presentations Ever

By Roy Osherove September 30, 2006 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published September 30, 2006; technical details may be outdated.

A friend sent this to me the other day, and I thought it'd be a good link to have here to follow up on every once in a while.

Folks, here are two folk's selection of the [Top 10 Best Presentations Ever](http://www.knowhr.com/blog/2006/08/21/top-10-best-presentations-ever/) .

- [Steve Jobs introduces the Macintosh in 1984](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8631701936876784775).
- [Dick Hardt’s Identity 2.0 presentation at OSCON 2005](http://www.identity20.com/media/OSCON2005/).
- [Guy Kawasaki’s Art of the Start speech at TiECon 2006](http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/06/the_art_of_the_.html).
- [Dr. Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream speech in 1963](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1732754907698549493).

Read the rest [here](http://www.knowhr.com/blog/2006/08/21/top-10-best-presentations-ever/) (with full descriptions on why they are the best...)

Feel free to put your favorites in the comments.

If there are good ones, I'll compile a whole new list from the comments and post it up as a separate article with credits to the commenter.

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