Computer History Museum

Pop-Up Pi Day: Make, Learn and Play with the World's Simplest Computer Kit!

Many of the coolest technologies today started with a bunch of parts and a big idea. Kids 12 to 15 years old are invited to join us at the Computer History Museum on March 15 to see some of the early computers and then make their own! Lunch will be included for the participants, and parents will have free admission to the museum while their kids are participating in the event.

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Happy 25th Birthday to the World Wide Web!

Twenty five years ago this month, Tim Berners-Lee first proposed what became the World Wide Web. Today it is living up to its ambitious name, serving three billion people with many more yet to come. 2014 is also the year for a number of other overlapping anniversaries from the Web's popular 1994 explosion to the teetering peak of the dot-com boom. We're marking the occasions with this blog post, and in our annual issue of Core magazine.

Revolutionaries Season 3 on KQED

Revolutionaries, the interview series produced by the Computer History Museum, in association with KQED Silicon Valley, returns for a third season. Take your front row seat for these intriguing conversations with renowned Silicon Valley leaders and innovators. The series airs on KQED Plus on Tuesdays at 7pm.

Smalltalk at the PARC with Adele Goldberg

Learn about the creation and development of Smalltalk-80 at Xerox PARC, one of the most influential programming languages of the twentieth century. Discover this story and so much more in Goldberg’s oral history.