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.
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Remarkable People
An Analog Life: Remembering Jim Williams
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Remarkable People
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Curatorial Insights, Internet History Program
Happy 20th Birthday to the Public Web!
Saturday, August 6, 2011
This month marks 20 years since the Web’s public announcement in several online forums and the release of the WWW code library, libWWW. The library was a kind of “roll your own” tool kit that gave volunteer programmers the pieces they needed to write their own Web browsers and servers. Their efforts– over half a dozen
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Remarkable People
We Had a Dream of Interactive Computing
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Remarkable People
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Curatorial Insights
Why a Computer History Museum?
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Humans have been creating tools since before recorded history. For many centuries, most tools served to amplify the power of the human body. We call the period of their greatest flowering the Industrial Revolution.
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From the Collection
MacPaint and QuickDraw Source Code
Sunday, July 18, 2010
The Apple Macintosh combined brilliant design in hardware and in software. The drawing program MacPaint, which was released with the computer in January of 1984, was an example of that brilliance both in what it did, and in how it was implemented.
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Curatorial Insights, Internet History Program
October 29, 1969: Happy 40th Birthday to a Radical Idea!
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
On the evening of October 29, 1969 the first data travelled between two nodes of the ARPANET, a key ancestor of the Internet. Even more important, this was one of the first big trials of a then-radical idea: Networking computers to each other. The men who symbolically turned the key on the connected world we know today
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From the Collection
Early Apple Business Documents
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
From the Collection