Do you have a story about computing history? We want to hear it.
We're building a home for the firsthand accounts of the people who were there.
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We welcome the Untold Stories of Computing!
Today the ITHS Board continues to bring together pioneers of the digital age:
🌐 Brewster Kahle — founder of the Internet Archive
📊 Bob Frankston — co-creator of VisiCalc
📖 George Dyson — author of Turing's Cathedral
💿 Randy Katz — co-inventor of RAID
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We stand on the shoulders of legends: Past Board Members and Trustees include John F. Carlson (Cray), Nolan Bushnell (Atari), Gideon Gartner (Gartner), former ACM president Peter Denning, and Turing Award winner Charles Bachman.
The people who built computing have entrusted us to preserve its story.
Over the decades, we built something remarkable:
📋 1,600+ people on our IT Honor Roll
💾 12,000+ entries in our hardware database
💬 1,000+ curated technical quotes
All searchable. All public. Explore at ithistory.org
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After 30 years of fundraising, the Charles Babbage Institute (CBI) had long-term stability. So in 2007 our Board convened to re-imagine our mission. We changed our name to "IT History Society", and we began developing a database to serve the global community of computer historians. #ComputerHistory
Our early supporters read like a hall of fame: Ken Olsen (founder of DEC), Joshua Lederberg (Nobel laureate), Martin Goetz (first U.S. software patent), and Gene Amdahl (mainframe legend). They weren’t just donors. They made the history.
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By 1978, leaders from across the computing industry gathered at Rockefeller University to organize and fund our mission. From the start, this was a community effort. For 30 years, CBF was the fund-raising arm of the Charles Babbage Institute at University of Minnesota.
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Our mission started in 1977, when computing pioneer Erwin Tomash and philanthropist, historian, and patron Adelle Tomash set out to preserve the history of an industry already starting to forget its origins. They called their project the Charles Babbage Foundation.
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We're the IT History Society — preserving the untold stories of computing since 1977.
Grassroots accounts from the people who lived it, curated with academic rigor. A searchable, lasting record of how technology was really made.
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Every technology you use today has a story behind it.
• Many of those stories are being forgotten.
• We've spent nearly 50 years making sure that doesn't happen.
More soon!
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