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A reference companion to the museum — curated topic sections that go deeper on the subjects behind the collection. Every entry, image, and fact is drawn from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.

Computing History

The machines that started it all — the Analytical Engine and the Antikythera mechanism, the codebreaking Colossus, the room-sized ENIAC, and the first microcomputers.

8 entries

Pioneers

The people who built the field — from Ada Lovelace and Alan Turing to Grace Hopper, Charles Babbage, Dennis Ritchie and Tim Berners-Lee.

8 entries

Languages & Software

The tools of the trade — Python and JavaScript, C and Java, veteran languages like COBOL and Fortran, and the operating systems everything runs on.

5 entries

Hardware & Internet

The physical layer underneath — the CPU and the transistor, hard disks and motherboards, and the routers and servers that make up the Internet.

7 entries