Computer History Museum

The world’s leading institution exploring the history of technology and its ongoing impact on the human experience. Silicon Valley, California

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Why preserve computer history? #HeritageMW

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The Computer History Museum is undertaking a groundbreaking collaboration with San Jose-based Cisco Systems to preserve its three decade history. #HeritageMW http://www.computerhistory.org/ciscoarchive/

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Because of her contributions, people can now travel to the moon and space. #TravelMW #WomenMW

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One of the best forms of travel is when we get to visit other worlds. #TravelMW

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Computers help to make every day travel safer. #TravelMW

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Who is ready for travel by autonomous vehicle? #TravelMW

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Looking for something to read? Explore our collection of marketing brochures from over 90 companies. #BooksMW

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This popular book on software engineering observed that adding people to a late project almost always makes it later. Brooks wrote it in response to IBM-chief Tom Watson’s asking why programming projects were so hard to manage. #BooksMW

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Learn from two inspiring entrepreneurs as they shared their stories on a wide range of topics, including different ways to think about becoming a founder, aha moments from the earliest days of their startups, highs and lows as an entrepreneur, and best advice. #StoriesMW #WomenMW

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Hear the stories from the computing legends themselves with video selections from CHM’s oral history collection.

Need some inspiration?

Listen to some of our oral history videos and hear from computing history pioneers themselves! #StoriesMW #WomenMW

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By creating smaller audio files, MP3s helped make music instantly available and easily shared. #musicmw

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Digital synthesizers took off in the late 1970s. But as the number of companies producing them grew, so too did the number of incompatible interfaces.

MIDI standardized communications between computers and electronic instruments. It opened the door to computer-based sequencers, and music recording, editing, and playback on computers. #musicmw

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Many inventors sought ways to incorporate electricity into music-making in the late 19th century. In 1874, Western Electric co-founder Elisha Gray demonstrated a musical telegraph system that anticipated today’s electronic synthesizers. #musicmw

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Composer Suzanne Ciani met analog synthesizer designer Don Buchla in the late 1960s and worked with him for nearly a decade.  She would later become a popular New Age musician known for utilizing both traditional and electronic instruments.

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The “Colonel Bogey March” wasn’t new in 1951. But hearing it from a computer was. The performance by Australia’s first computer, CSIRAC, was among the earliest, tentative tootles of a new musical age.

Computers and music go way back.

This week we are participating in #MuseumWeek! Each day we will be exploring a new topic and today's topic is MUSIC! #MusicMW

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CHM Revolutionaries: America's Cup Comes to San Francisco- Technology Under Sail

This is an episode of REVOLUTIONARIES, a co-production of the Computer History Museum and KQED television, with major sponsorship by Intel. Recorded: August ...

Explore the technology behind sailing and filming the America's Cup. #SportsMW

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Texting is a sport, right?

Kate Moore texted her way to victory, winning a grand prize of $50,000 at the 2009 LG National Texting Championship. Competitors participated in texting challenges that tested speed, dexterity, and accuracy, including knowledge of acronyms. #SportsMW