(The Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA) The home of the largest collection of computer artifacts in the world, which includes thousands of hardware components, images, films and videos.

We’re teaming up with CHM to take a look at critical innovations in technology history, beginning with the 40th anniversary of the Apple Lisa and the 50th anniversary of ethernet. We’re teaming up ...

With the rapid transformation of our lives by AI, one might wonder if there has ever been a societal force that has changed the way we work and communicate. One only has to look back at the last half ...

This story was produced as part of The Verge’s partnership with the Computer History Museum to explore the past and future of tech. Located in Mountain View, California, CHM does extensive work in ...

In 2022, this series was expanded into a book, edited by Torie Bosch. Read “You Are Not Expected to Understand This”: How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World here. Back in 2009, Facebook launched a ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW — After being closed for two years because of the pandemic, the Computer History Museum reopened Saturday, and visitors could once again let their inner nerd geek out as they explore the ...

Set in the heart of Silicon Valley, the Computer History Museum long cheered the developments around it. Now, it’s taking a more nuanced approach. Credit...By Loren Elliott For The New York Times ...

In 2017 I went up to Seattle for PAX as usual, and while I was up there I heard about the Living Computer Museum, an institution in southern Seattle founded by Paul Allen to preserve PC history. I ...

Forty years ago this week, the iconic IBM PC made its debut, cementing the personal computer as a mainstream product category to be reckoned with. Within a few years, America — and the world — went ...

An interview with Robert Taylor, former manager of Xerox PARC, shows TCP/IP designs were based a lot on the PARC Universal Packet (PUP) networking protocol suite. To understand where we are going, we ...

Since the 18th century, people have been fascinated by the idea of machines that could play chess against humans. With the advent of the digital electronic computer in the mid-20th century, that dream ...

While the original name of what much of the world knows as the NES was the Nintendo Family Computer, or Famicom for short, it was very rarely used as a family computer. Sure, there was a basic ...