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Since the inception of the WIMP-based Graphical User Interface more than 20 years ago at the legendary Xerox PARC laboratory, the world has seen many GUIs come and go. While it is easy to think of graphical interfaces in terms of newest editions of Windows (95 and up), it’s been much earlier and much more than that. This site is meant to be an online museum of graphical interfaces, especially those old, obscure and in desperate need of preservation.

The calculator section is divided into 4 groups: Slide Rules Mechanical & Electronic Calculators Microcomputers Misc. Items (Early artifacts, manuals, etc.)

The Society for the History of Technology was formed in 1958 to encourage the study of the development of technology and its relations with society and culture. An interdisciplinary organization, SHOT is concerned not only with the history of technological devices and processes but also with technology in history—that is, the relationship of technology to politics, economics, science, the arts, and the organization of production, and with the role it plays in the differentiation of individuals in society. Not least, it is concerned with interpretive flexibility, the conception that beliefs about whether a technology "works" are contingent on the expectations, needs, and ideologies of those who interact with it.

Exhibition at the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum from January to December 2012 The international scientific focus in 2012 will be firmly on Alan Turing. This legendary British mathematician and computer pioneer was born in London on 23 June 1912. His 100th birthday will be marked by numerous events, primarily in his native country, but also in the USA, Brazil, China and elsewhere.

The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives.

Disruptive technologies uproot culture, can precipitate wars and even topple empires. By this measure, human history has seen nothing like the Internet. Pioneers of the digital revolution examine the Internet’s brief but explosive history and reveal nascent projects that will shortly reinvent how we interact with technology—and each other. From social upheaval and ever-shifting privacy standards to self-driving cars and networked groceries, this eye-opening program provides a stunning glimpse of what’s around the corner.

The computer as we know it today had its beginning with a 19th century English mathematics professor name Charles Babbage. He designed the Analytical Engine and it was this design that the basic framework of the computers of today are based on. Generally speaking, computers can be classified into three generations. Each generation lasted for a certain period of time,and each gave us either a new and improved computer or an improvement to the existing computer.

NFC or Near field communication is something would simply be impossible without the popularity of the cellular telephone today. This article will look at the steps that lead to the creation of the cell phone which in turn lead to many other technologies such as NFC.

The HP Computer Museum is a collection of old Hewlett-Packard computer hardware, software, documentation and other marketing materials from HP's early years in the computer industry (beginning in 1966). The Museum is privately funded and owned by Wordsong Communications Pty. Ltd. The museum is not a commercial enterprise; it’s a resource for the enthusiastic and for the curious. The museum is housed in a 2500 square-foot building (shed, really) in Melbourne, Australia.

It is not often that a 2100 year-old device becomes news again more than 100 years after it's first discovery at the bottom of the Aegean Sea. This is what happened when a consortium of computer companies, archaeological institutions and archaeo-astronomers released a statement that a major re-evaluation of the Antikythera device was about to be completed.