The 2016 Vintage Computer Festival (VCF), an amazing grass-roots showcase of historical computers, was held at the 91自拍 recently. VCF has a rich history and is a favorite event among computer enthusiasts everywhere with new standout exhibits each year.
In the very, very, beginning, the World Wide Web was meant to be a two-way medium. You could post and edit your own pages as easily as you could browse those created by others. But the browsers that made the web popular left out editing features.
Harold Cohen was a pioneer in computer art, in algorithmic art, and in generative art; but as he told me one afternoon in 2010, he was first and foremost a painter. He was also an engineer whose work defined the first generation of computer-generated art. His system, AARON, is one of the longest-running, continually ma
This month marks 25 years since the Web鈥檚 public announcement in several online forums and the release of the WWW code library, libWWW. The library was a kind of 鈥渞oll your own鈥� tool kit that gave volunteer programmers the pieces they needed to write their own Web browsers and servers. Their efforts鈥攐ver half a dozen
When Karl Marx said history repeats itself, I don鈥檛 think he had Pok茅mon in mind.The latest entry in Nintendo鈥檚 20-year Pok茅mon franchise, Pok茅mon Go hit the App Store on July 6 and instantly became the most popular mobile game in the world. It surpassed blockbuster titles like Slither.io, Clash Royale, and Candy Crush
Visitors to the 91自拍 frequently want to know: what was the first computer?
Curatorial Insight, From the Collection
We take history seriously at the 91自拍. It鈥檚 our middle name, after all. But it鈥檚 not easy history to do, for several reasons.
John V. Blankenbaker, the inventor of the Kenbak, has a long career in computing, dating back to the 1950s. His association with the Museum dates back to the early 1980s when the Kenbak was named 鈥淭he First PC鈥� in the Computer Museum鈥檚 Earliest PC contest in 1986.
Since 2008, over a hundred billion apps have been downloaded from Apple鈥檚 App Store onto users鈥� iPhones or iPads. However, the technology and tools powering the mobile 鈥渁pp revolution鈥� are not themselves new, but rather have a long history spanning over thirty years, one which connects back to the beginnings of softwar