CHM Blog
The CHM blog showcases ideas and insights from our vibrant community in Silicon Valley and around the world. We take you behind the scenes of our programming, collections, and exhibits. Connecting the past to the present and into the future, we decode technology for everyone.
From the Collection
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From the Collection, Software History Center
NeXT: Steve Jobs’ dot com IPO that Never Happened
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Had Steve Jobs’ first company not bought his second, history likely would have been very different. Apple might not exist today. No iPhone. But what could have happened to NeXT?
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From the Collection
Blogged by CHM in California: 20 Years of Apple Design
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
On November 15 Apple announced Designed by Apple in California, a coffee table book chronicling 20 years of Apple products. The pages are filled with the iconic minimalism that accompanies most photos, all shot by photographer Andrew Zuckerman, and embodies what a lot of us consider to be the Apple “look.”
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From the Collection, Guest Blog
Personal Computing 1984: PC Pragmatists, Macintosh Visionaries & the Future of Portability
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
This is the fourth of five video releases of Boston Computer Society (BCS) General Meetings, by the Computer History Museum
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Curatorial Insights, From the Collection, Software History Center
Slide Logic: The Emergence of Presentation Software and the Prehistory of PowerPoint
Tuesday, October 4, 2016
In many parts of our world today, group communication centers on visual materials built with “presentation software,” often crafted by a speaker him or herself. As a result, meetings now generally depend on the use of personal computers, presentation software in the guises of product or service and display by digital p
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Exponential Center, From the Collection
1 to 1 Billion: Eight Exponential Entrepreneurial Stories
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Gordon Moore and Intel. Steve Jobs and Apple. Bill Gates and Microsoft. Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook. These entrepreneurs and the iconic companies they have built rank among the most transformational stories of our time. They illustrate that one idea can create a billion devices, generate a billion dollars, or touch a
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From the Collection, Remarkable People
Jim Porter and the History of the Global Storage Industry
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
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Curatorial Insights, From the Collection
The ECHO IV Home Computer: 50 Years Later
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Curatorial Insight, From the Collection
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From the Collection, Guest Blog
Personal Computing 1983: Innovation Bursting in Every Direction
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
This is the third of five video releases of The Boston Computer Society (BCS) General Meetings, by the Computer History Museum.
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From the Collection
Community Memory: Precedents in Social Media and Movements
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
When studying the social movements and countercultural ethos of the 1960s and 1970s, researchers and historians might not initially think to visit the Computer History Museum for relevant resources. However, the intersections between these sociopolitical phenomena and the histories of early computerized social networks
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From the Collection
The 1986 ACM Conference on the History of Personal Workstations
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
On January 9th and 10th of 1986, at Rickey’s Hyatt House in Palo Alto, California, there was an historic gathering of the pioneers who invented personal computing. The event was sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and hosted by the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Called the “ACM Conferen